On Saturday 01 June 2002 5:27 am, Rene Hexel wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 14:11, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > > 	USE_PTHREAD=	native pth pth-syscall
> > >
> > > if anything.
> > 
> > 	Hmm - that still tries to pull in pth even if pth-syscall is
> > 	installed?
> 
>   Maybe this should be combined with a
> 
>   BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.pth?= pth{,-syscall}>=1.4.0
> 
>   in pth's (and also pth-syscall's) buildlink.mk?  This way, the default
> would still depend on USE_PTHREAD and PTHREAD_TYPE settings, but the
> "other" pth would also be accepted.

Good idea.

>   BTW, I've been running with pth-syscall (focibly injected in place of
> a pre-existing pth) for a couple of days, without any problems so far. 
> I have about 50 packages installed that depend on pth (most of them
> gnome packages).  So it seems like the syscall-hard problems of earlier
> versions have been fixed ...

If this is the case lets get rid of pth-syscall and have --enable-syscall-hard 
in pth.

Nick