Re: [xml] LIBXML_THREAD_ENABLED and HAVE_PTHREAD_H mismatch

[Adrian Bunk <bunk stusta de>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:00:38PM +0200, Roumen Petrov wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > > > > Kwasi Mensah wrote:
> > > > > I ran into the issue where HAVE_PTHREAD_H is defined but
> > > > > LIBXML_THREAD_ENABLED wasn't. The fix was already submitted as per
> > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2005-August/msg00136.html  .
> > > > >
> > > > > Out of curiosity, is there a reason this patch didn't get into that main
> > > > > line?
> > > > >
> > > > > This is with libxml2 2.7.8 on Mac OS X. I ran the configure script but
> [SNIP]
> In summary :
> - gcc -pthread defines _REENTRANT on linux
> - gcc -pthread does not define preprocesor macros on FreeBSD and OS
> X(darwin).
>
> I guess other BSDs to be similar as FreeBSD.
> No Idea how to resolve properly issue.

The proper solution would be to:
- get rid of the #if's in xmlversion.h.in and
- set one threads variable in configure.ac when using threads and
- *if* that variable is set, set an additional variable in
  configure.ac specifying which threads type is used

> Roumen

cu
Adrian

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