[Patches] GNU pth thread library support

[Andy Dustman]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I've applied your patch -- I don't know anything about GNU pth, but it
> seems your patch doesn't affect anything when GNU pth is not
> installed, so I'm fine with it.
> 
> One thing: you sent in a change to config.h.in.  That's not how it's
> done -- you add symbols to acconfig.h (in the proper alphabetical
> order!), and they automatically get added to config.h.in when you run
> autoheader.  I fixed this by adding _GNU_PTH to acconfig.h; I didn't
> see any references to the HAVE_PTH_INIT symbol in your code so I left
> that out.

Sorry about that. This is really the first stab I've had at modifying
anything that uses GNU autoconf.
 
> Realize that I don't have the time to maintain or debug this -- if a
> conflict is reported with the configuration during the alpha cycle,
> it's up to you to fix it.

I'll do my best. At least it passes the normal threading tests. 

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