Re: Small patch to Common C++ 1.3.12

David Sugar wrote:
> "lthread" and the "--with-linuxthreads" option was used exclusivily with 
> the port of the "Linux threading library" that was commonly found on 
> older releases of xBSD (FreeBSD in particular).  It has no relevance to 
> GNU/Linux systems whatsoever, and in any case should be depreciated now 
> that more recent xBSD kernels have fully native smp and thread support.

Please, consider to wait a bit more, threading in FreeBSD 5.x is good now,
but linuxthreads is somewhat [much] faster in all test cases I read...
We are waiting for FreeBSD 6 to see...

> 
> Michel Stam wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was compiling a package of Common C++ 1.3.12 when I noticed that a 
>> chmod fails during make install. Reason was the absence of a 
>> $(DESTDIR) in src/Makefile.am.
>>
>> I've attached the patch if anyone's interested. the 'reconfig' script 
>> should be executed after applying.
>>
>> Secondly,
>> I noticed that the configure script assumes that 'lthread' is the 
>> library used for LinuxThreads (--with-linuxthreads). On several Linux 
>> distributions I checked, the 'pthread' library is used for 
>> LinuxThreads instead.
>>
>> A README file I found in the glibc Slackware 10.1 package (probably 
>> copied from the glibc source tree) in 
>> /usr/doc/glibc-2.3.4/linuxthreads/, states:
>>
>> /USING LINUXTHREADS:
>>
>>         gcc -D_REENTRANT ... -lpthread
>> /
>> Is this the same on all Linux distributions? It appears to be the case 
>> for RedHat 7.2 (glibc 2.2.4), Slackware 7.1.0 (glibc 2.1.3), Slackware 
>> 8.0.0 (glibc 2.2.3) and Slackware 10.1 (glibc 2.3.4).
>>
>> In any case building --with-linuxthreads causes the build to fail 
>> because liblthread cannot be found.
>> Using --with-pthread=pthread at configure time instead of 
>> --with-linuxthreads fixes that problem, btw.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michel Stam
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *** src/Makefile.am    2005-06-30 14:24:03.000000000 +0200
>> --- src/Makefile.am    2005-06-30 14:24:10.000000000 +0200
>> ***************
>> *** 71,76 ****
>>           -rpath $(libdir) ccext2.lo $(LDFLAGS) -lpthread
>>       touch macosx
>>     install-data-hook:
>> !     chmod +x ${scriptdir}/ccgnu2-config
>>   --- 71,76 ----
>>           -rpath $(libdir) ccext2.lo $(LDFLAGS) -lpthread
>>       touch macosx
>>     install-data-hook:
>> !     chmod +x $(DESTDIR)${scriptdir}/ccgnu2-config
>>  
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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