Thanks, Andrews and Alan. Good to know about the Debian/Ubuntu distibutions. The propagation to others may help with PDL's migration from PGPLOT to PLplot as well (certainly my own...). We'll be looking out for 5.9.2 and 5.10!
cheers, Derek Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2008-12-22 20:55-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > >> >> 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. > > Derek, we set if OFF by default originally because thread support was > pretty > awful when we first introduced this feature. Our inertia meant we never > thought much about turning HAVE_PTHREAD=ON by default until now. :-( > > Thanks for your suggestion to do that which I have just implemented > (revision 9215). This should be fine for Linux systems (from Andrew's > comments above and also my Linux testing experience), but we will see > how it > goes for other platforms. The CMake support behind cross-platform > threading > seens fairly extensive so other platforms may be fine as well. If those > testing the svn trunk version of PLplot with non-Linux platforms > report no > problems everybody will get this feature for the next release, but > otherwise > I will make an additional change so its only ON by default for Linux. In > any case HAVE_PTHREAD=ON will eventually propagate to Linux > distributions. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and > Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation > for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software > package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the > Loads of > Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project > (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
