Subject: Re: pthread neede in xine(a dvd player)
To: Samuel Hornus\[Isobel\] <Samuel.Hornus@crans.org>
From: Dr. Rene Hexel <rh@vip.at>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/17/2001 22:39:57
"Samuel Hornus[Isobel]" wrote:

> Is there a way to use this lib(lib?) on my system ?
> is /usr/pkgsrc/devel/pth suitable ?

  Pth is a pthreads compatible library, so it should be suitable, yes. 
Since pth is a non-preemptive threads package, you might want to define
_POSIX_THREAD_SYSCALL_SOFT=1 when compiling xine to cause (blocking)
syscalls to yield the CPU to a different thread.

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene