Re: [xml] Mac OS X Binaries

[Daniel Macks <dmacks netspace org>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:09:01AM +0300, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
> On 7/14/07, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:24:23AM +1000, Steve Ball wrote:
>
> > > I compiled the tests for libxml2 and ran them on both the Mac Book
> > > Pro (Intel) and a PowerBook (PPC).  All tests passed... well, almost;
> > > there was one error reported but the message said "Specific platform
> > > thread support not detected" so I presume that this means threading
> > > may not be available.
> >
> >   Strange, I would expect pthreads to be available, probably worth exploring.
>
> Under Darwin no special compiler options nor libraries need for thread support.
> All pthread functions exist in the libc.
> libpthread exists just as stub for compatibility with packages that
> links with libpthread unconditionally.

Even less than a stub really:

  $ ls -l /usr/lib/libpthread.dylib
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15 22 Mar  2006 /usr/lib/libpthread.dylib -> libSystem.dylib

where libSystem on darwin is what libc is on linux, and is
automatically linked by default in all binaries.

dan

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