Subject: Re: What is happening with libpthread???
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au>
From: Marc Baudoin <Marc.Baudoin@hsc.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 01/18/1997 15:12:07
Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au> writes:
>
> Whilst stumbling about in the lib sources I saw the stuff for
> the pthreads library there (I am talking the i386 architecture here).
> It appeared that from a December96-ish -current that the library does
> not compile correctly (lots of mis-matched function prototypes). I
> have tried updating to the latest -current but none of the pthread
> files were changed when I did this. Is there work that needs to be
> done to integrate the libpthread stuff? Or have I done something
> wrong?
The pthreads library bundled with NetBSD is a quite old one which doesn't
even compile, you're right.
Get the latest pthreads library (1_60_beta6) from
<URL:ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/pthreads/>, it compiles and run OK on my NetBSD
1.2 box.
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Marc Baudoin -=- <Marc.Baudoin@hsc.fr>
Hervé Schauer Consultants