Re: [xml] libxml2 and pthreads

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:54:47AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Hello!
>
> While porting some code forward from RH 9 to FC 2, I noticed
> that anything I linked with libxml also needed to be linked
> with pthreads.  For various reasons I do not want to link against
> pthreads, so I am curious to know what is the preferred method of
> building/finding a pthread-less libxml?

  configure --without-threads

> With most other libraries, any locking is done by the calling code.
> Why did libxml see the need to pull pthreads internal?

  we call pthread from libxml2 for locking and thread private data.
This affect malloc() and free() too.

Daniel

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