Subject: Re: pthread support in gcc3
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/21/2003 17:25:17
In article <3E2D8262.9090604@sabl.com>, Bart Locanthi <bart@sabl.com> wrote:

Upgrade to current. It has native threads.

christos

>Hi all,
>
>I've been playing with GCJ, and it's very promising, but I am stuck on 
>the pthreads issue. No idea if this is easy/hard or already 
>known/already dismissed, but at present I have no clue how to start.
>
>The code in gcc-3.2.1/libjava builds different stuff based on the 
>existence of pthreads.
>
>There appear to be at least three posix pthreads implementations - pth, 
>mit-pthreads, and unproven-pthreads - available, and I installed 
>mit-pthreads with no apparent difficulties.
>
>However, I don't know how to tell the gcc3 pkgsrc install of the 
>existence of a pthreads library. I see mention of "enable_pthread" in 
>config.in, but have no idea how to get to that from the "make install" 
>top-level thing.
>
>Also, given that "make install" for any of these things puts them in 
>/usr/pkg, is this insufficient in the case of the pthreads packages?
>
>Any help appreciated.
>
>-Bart
>