Subject: threading lib [was: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc]
To: Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/24/2001 22:21:46
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Nick Hudson wrote:
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/net/kdenetwork2: Makefile
> 	pkgsrc/net/kdenetwork2/files: patch-sum
> Added Files:
> 	pkgsrc/net/kdenetwork2/patches: patch-ab patch-ac
> 
> Log Message:
> Use PTL2 as the pthreads library so that knode actually does something.

Is there a special reason why to use ptl2 over - say - unproven-pthreads?

IIRC it was once agreed on that unproven-pthreads was what's closest to
thead thread package that we'll get into NetBSD one day, and for that
using it in pkgsrc now will cause the least headaches for native threads
when we have them. 


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>