Re: Small patch to Common C++ 1.3.12

There is no need to rush to remove it :).  I was also not aware of the 
performance difference that still remain.

Dmitry Agafonov wrote:
> 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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