From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 7 14: 1:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 14:01:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F8E37B400; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:01:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id RAA08109; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:01:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:01:18 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Brian Somers Cc: Brian Somers , "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Robert Watson , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Threads in the base system In-Reply-To: <200012072155.eB7Lt7G51311@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Brian Somers wrote: > I'd tend to just say that we do it in these stages: > > 1. Remove NOLIBC_R > 2. Eventually introduce libpthread > 3. Change all Makefiles that say -pthread to say -lpthread > 4. Blow away libc_r > > With whatever gap is required between each step. We *could* replace > item 1 with ``don't build -pthread programs if NOLIBC_R'' and change > that to NOLIBPTHREAD when item 3 is done, but I'd say it's better to > encourage threads and not give these options. OK, that's fine with me. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message