David Engel writes: [ chopped pthreads related release notes ] >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.
I spent the day downloading and then compiling the source for libc-5.3.12 off of sunsite. It all compiled fine, except for the one struct definition in include/pthread/mit/sys/compat.h, which I just ifdefed out. I put the resulting library in /usr/lib, and tried it out with a really simple test program, and it worked. I'm also happy to note that I haven't had any problems with the new C library yet, although I haven't been beating on it much. Michael