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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

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