Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:46:52 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Detecting the presence of threads (for a port) Message-ID: <ML-3.3.900442012.2582.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <4015.900438861@time.cdrom.com>
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> > 2) Should pthreads be required in the default port? Since they are not > > available with an out-of-the-box 2.2 FreeBSD, I assume not, in which case > > I'd have to break the pthread patches out into a seperate set of files, > > and only apply them if a particular make variable is set. Does this make > > sense? > > You could always wimp out on this one and simply stop if you don't > find a libc_r in the obvious place, telling the user to go compile > that bit and come back. ...<elided>... Errr, shouldn't that be "compile or install from the binary distribution"? It's easy to forget that many folks won't even install the system sources. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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