[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel) writes: > > The MIT pthread library 1.60 beta2 seems to work. It passed most of tests > > in the MIT pthread package. The pthread libraries are not installed by
[...] > Would someone like to test the pthread library that is built? You'll > need to get the libc5 source and recompile the entire package > yourself. If libpthread proves to work, I'll include it in either the > next libc5 package or a separate libpthread package. We've been using pthreads in the lab for a while, but we had to get 1.60 beta 4 (I think there's an even newer one now) because beta 2 still had a number of bugs that made it unusable. It'd be really nice to have the library included in Debian's libc (or as a separate package). Maintaining a separate version of pthreads on top of Debian's libc5's been a pain. Note that we may need a separate pthreads package since pthreads includes wrappers for gcc/g++ to make sure you compile with the right headers and libraries. Or perhaps that wouldn't be an issue if Debian's libc were already compiled with the support. I'm not sure. -- Rob