Jim Meyering wrote: > That has made me consider (if/when sort does become > multithreaded) building specified multithreaded programs in > coreutils against a separate thread-safe gnulib instance, > so that the remaining 100 programs don't suffer just because > sort flipped the MT switch.
Makes sense. Just for info, gettext already uses 3 gnulib instances. Each has its independent set of options like --source-base, so there are no conflicts. The size of the distribution tarball is increased, as are the compilation times, but that is not a problem nowadays. Bruno
