[Mono-list] mono and NGPT pthreads on linux

[marijn ros]

----- Original Message -----
From: Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 13:19:53 +0200
To: mono-list@ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] mono and NGPT pthreads on linux


> On 04/07/02 Marijn Ros wrote:
> > 1. The configure script doesn't support --with-gc=none (or
> > --without-gc), but I needed it because I do have libgc6, linked to
> > linuxthreads. I simply changed the *) case back to what is was before
> > linking with libgc6 worked, but adding an xnone) case would
> > be better of course.
> 
> This has been fixed in cvs a couple of days after the release, IIRC.

That's nice to hear.

> I have a question, though: isn't NGPT supposed to be also binary
> compatible with linuxthreads? Did you get some errors linking
> in libgc?

NGPT leaves the original linuxthreads library in place and uses a totally different major number (12 instead of 0). And libgc claims it is very linuxthreads specific. So I didn't even try.

> > 2. The configure script doesn't add -lpthread to the LIBS. With
> > linuxthreads, this is not needed (because of -lrt?), but with
> > NGPT-pthreads it is. I fixed this by adding -lpthread in the makefiles
> > of all program directories, but of course it should be fixed in the
> > configure script.
> 
> Yes, I think this same issue may cause some of the build errors 
> on OpenBSD that someone reported a while ago.
> 
> > 3. icall.c uses environ. This gave me some problems, as glibc needs
> > __USE_GNU to export that variable. I changed the two occurrances to
> > __environ, but this also should be detected by the configure script
> > and __USE_GNU being defined accordingly.
> 
> I think adding a:
> 
> extern char **environ;
> 
> in the file should fix the problem and should be portable to some odd
> systems, too.
> 
> Thanks for testing and the feedback!
> 
> lupus
> 
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