Re: GNOME CVS: glib martin

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Martin,

> > Could you please mail gtk-devel-list, CC'ing Sebastian Wilhelmi
> > <wilhelmi ira uka de> and explain exactly what you changed and
> > why?
> 
> I'm sorry about this.
> 
> Well, it seemed very logical to me that if either the OS doesn't have any
> thread support of if the user disabled thread support with --disable-threads
> then it makes no sense to compile the gthread library.
> 
> The automake conditional disables the gthread directory from being built if
> either
> 
> a) "$have_threads" is "none" after all the thread checks - in this case the
>    OS doesn't have any thread support
> b) "$want_threads" is "no" - in this case the user manually disabled thread
>    support for some reason which should be honored.
> 
> AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_THREADS, test "x$have_threads" != xnone && test
> "x$want_threads" != xno)
> 
> If we do not want to disable the gthread directory even if there's no thread
> support at all on the system for some reason, we should at least do it if
> the user specified --disable-threads to avoid that it breaks compilation on
> a system (such as Tru64 for instance) where this simply doesn't work.

Just be more specific on the problems, you encounter. I'll try to help you to
solve these (Actually I already had a compilation success confirmation for CVS
glib on Tru64 with threads). Other than that everything is already said by
Owen and Tim.

Bye,
Sebastian
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