Subject: Re: Building nathanw_sa branch?
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/02/2002 21:38:48
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:32:00AM -0500, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> Well, not really. The intersting bits are the kernel, libc,
> libpthread, and libsyscall. Since the rest of userland doesn't make use
> of the SA's or the libpthread features, it's not very interesting.
> 
> That said, things should be buildable. The particular problem you're
> having there is a known one; it's because dtime_.c is declaring
> _POSIX_SOURCE and then including <sys/param.h>, which is a totally
> bogus thing for it to do, but which didn't happen to be a
> problem. I've been working on a clean solution to this (it's actually
> fixed in the gcc sources, but not in a version that will be released
> any time soon), but in the meantime, don't rebuild gcc.

How usable is it for testing applications that use libpthread?

-Andrew