Re: [GD-DEVEL] The PTHREADS support detection is broken

On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:47:01 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard writes:
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> Hi,
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> The detection of PTHREADS support is broken. See
> http://bugs.debian.org/268280 for more info.
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> The attached patch (together with the libtools cleanup suggested in an
> earlier post) should fix this issue.
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> I believe this to be safe to apply for 2.0.34.

 My apologies for the belated reply. I was only now able to track down the
 correct email address of the macro author. Here's his response:

| From: "Steven G. Johnson" <[email protected]>
| To: Lars Hecking <[email protected]>
| Subject: Re: acx_pthread
| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:54:30 -0500
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| The patch is incorrect.  The ACX_PTHREAD macro is supposed to restore the 
| original LIBS and CFLAGS upon exiting according to its documentation, so 
| the original version of the macro is correct.  If the user wants to add 
| $PTHREAD_LIBS to the global $LIBS, she is responsible for doing so herself, 
| as documented.

 So, if there are any changes necessary, they must be made outside the
 ACX_PTHREAD context as we should not deviate from the upstream code.