Re: [xml] libxml2 and pthreads

[Ben Greear <greearb candelatech com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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.

I do not have to link libpthread for normal malloc and free though,
and when I fork() from a signal handler my program doesn't deadlock
deep in libpthread :)

I'll give the --without-threads option a try.

Thanks,
Ben

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