Re: --enable-nspr-threads option

Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Jon Leighton<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is the --enable-nspr-threads configure option only supported on certain
>> platforms?  NSPR 4.8 seems to build ok with this option on FreeBSD 7.2, but
>> the build fails when I try it on Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Intel), linux 2.6.28, and
>> OpenSolaris 5.11.
> 
> Yes, the --enable-nspr-threads configure option is only supported
> on certain platforms.  This configure option means "use NSPR's
> own user-level thread library".  That library was written before
> pthreads became widely available.  Once pthreads became widely
> available, we stopped porting NSPR's user-level thread library to
> new platforms.
> 
> For your SCTP work, you don't need to support the --enable-nspr-threads
> configure option.
> 
> Wan-Teh

Thanks - that's exactly what I needed to know (and was hoping to hear).

- Jon