Re: Re: Help getting linking to work and ...

Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> > Of course after that the next problem is the program needs to be compiled &
> > linked with the multi-threaded is there a "portable" variable like for
> > enabling multi-threading?
> 
> Not that I know of right now. I'd suggest using "PTHREAD" as the
> variable name, or PTHREAD_LIBS, which you would set to the
> multi-threading library (if any). The name may be a bit exotic for
> non-BSD users, but it means everything there :) [it could be set to
> -pthread [fbsd 4-stable], -lpthread [solaris], -lkse [fbsd 5-current],
> ... ]

I think there is more to it than adding something to the build command.
On many platforms you also need to add something to the compilation
command, such as "-D_THREAD_SAFE".

Perhaps we can tell the user to do:

	THREADING = yes

And then have the tool take the necessary steps to compile and link with
appropriate arguments?  For FreeBSD it would be something like:

	if os.name == "freebsd" and _no.THREADING == "yes":
		extra_link_arg = "-pthread"
		extra_cc_arg = "-D_THREAD_SAFE"

[_no.THREADING could be misinterpreted, but we can't change "_no" now
without being completely incompatible]

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