At 12 Jun 2004 00:09:05 -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Pete Bessman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One more point in favor of GThread I just figured out is config > > testing for it. All you have to do is at a pkg-config check for > > gthread-2.0 and your set. Having glanced through other programs, > > checking for pthreads seems a bit more involved than I care to be > > (read: not at all, I hate the fscking autotools). So, I think > > I'll roll with GThread. > > Not a very strong reason. Checking for pthreads is a little tricky, > but hardly rocket science. These checks (from JACK) work for quite a > few platforms, though I'm sure there are others one could add... > > AC_CHECK_HEADER(/usr/include/nptl/pthread.h, > [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/usr/include/nptl"]) > > AC_CHECK_FUNC(pthread_create, [], > AC_CHECK_LIB(pthread, pthread_create, [], > AC_MSG_ERROR([*** JACK requires POSIX threads support])))
Touche. Since you did all the hard work for me, and pthreads isn't OOPy like GThreads, I'll stick with pthreads :-) > There is also a conditional check for pthread_barrier_init(). Well, I don't even know wtf that is, so I think I'll be ok without it. [pb]
