[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Threading support
From: |
Philip Willoughby |
Subject: |
Re: Threading support |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 09:57:22 +0100 (BST) |
Yesterday, John Poltorak wrote:
>Does autoconf check for threading support, and if so how does it do it?
I generally use
AC_SEARCH_LIBS(pthread_create, pthread posix POSIX)
for pthread support
>On OS/2 support for threading is native and built into the operating
>system. How would autoconf handle such a situation? Would I need to
>install the pthreads library?
OS/2 threadsare not pthreads as far as I know, so you would need to install
an emulation layer to convert pthreads calls into the appropriate OS/2
calls, just like on NT...
Regards,
Philip Willoughby
Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK
--
echo address@hidden | tr "bizndfohces" "pwgd9ociaku"