From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 14 11:47:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20507 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20502 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 0ywA6K-0005zP-00; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:46:56 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA04399; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:46:52 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Detecting the presence of threads (for a port) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Peter van Heusden , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4015.900438861@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. ...... 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