Re: pthreads and libc version for debian 1.1

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

Guy Maor writes:
> The latest pthread library is 1.60 beta4, released on 10/25/95.
> Compiled seperately it works moderately well.  It's a lot of fun to
> play with.  You can get more info at
> http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html

Actually, I saw two newer versions on the MIT ftp site, beta4_1 and
beta5.

> Presumably libc 5.3.12 contains the newer version, so when 5.3
> stabilizes and David upgrades, we'll have it.  Until then, you might

Both libc 5.3.12 and 5.4.1 include pthreads 1.60beta4.  I will release
libc 5.3.12 or 5.4.x (if it's released) after Debian 1.1 is released.

> want to get the pthread source from the above site and compile it
> seperately.  It compiles out of the box under Linux.

I am not familiar with pthreads at all, so I'm not comfortable with
deviating from H.J. Lu's version.  Unless someone steps forward to
package pthreads separately, here is what I propose to do.  I will be
updating the kernel headers in libc 5.2.18-x to version 2.0.0 whenever
Linus releases it.  When I do that, I will include H.J.'s pthreads in
the libc5 package.  I will also have it provide a virtual package
called pthreads1.  Packages with threaded binaries should depend on
pthreads1.  This will make it easier to split out pthreads later if we
want to.

David
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