Hi Derek, There is no real reason not to enable pthreads on a Linux system. I maintain the Debian / Ubuntu packages and we certainly build them with pthread support.
Andrew On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:45:50PM -0500, Derek Lamb wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been experimenting with PLplot for awhile. Mainly I use PDL, and > thus interactive plotting with the xwin driver and the > PDL::Graphics::PLplot module. But until now I was not able to get over > one hurdle: that whenever I covered up the window, the contents would > disappear until the next plotting command was issued. Just last week I > was searching the email lists and found that setting the HAVE_PTHREAD > option to cmake resolves this, in quite a satisfactory way. However, I > usually just install PLplot from my distro's package manager, especially > on a new machine, because of the considerable dependencies. > > Is there any (good) reason that pthreads is not enabled by default, and > thus enabled in the version downloaded from each distribution's > repository? I don't know how that would work for packaging, how often > pthreads are installed by default, or if that would generate a huge > dependency, but it seems so convenient... > > cheers, > Derek > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-general mailing list > Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
