Folks,
in the process of testing 2.2.1 I ran into a bug on SGI that has been
there since at least 2.2: if you build with threads you get an undefined
error on pthread_detach() while linking the interpreter.
I think the solution is to change the autoconf test that decides which
libraries to add for pthread (make it refer not only the thread_create()
but also thread_detach()), but as pthread_detach apparently isn't
available in all pthread implementations (if I understand the small
forest of ifdefs inside thread_pthread.h correctly) I'm not sure this
won't break anything else.
Could some pthread guru please have a look at bug #522393?
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- Jack Jansen