Re: make libobjc and libobjc2 easily renamable, and some fixes for old libobjc with regard to pthreads

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:46 CEST, Wolfgang Lux <wolfgang.lux@gmail.com> 
wrote: 
 
> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> 
> > With the old libobjc, I ran into another problem, when I change the 
> > threading to THREADING=pthreads.
> > Then the thr_pthreads.c fails to compile, since the header name I need to 
> > include differs, and also some of the threading functions have different 
> > number of parameters, and return values. So I wonder, whether the using 
> > pthreads there is actually the right thing to do for me on OpenBSD, or 
> > whether I misunderstood sth. and the pthreads in the old libobjc is 
> > actually sth. completely different.
> 
> I assume you want to use THREADING=posix. The file thr-pthread.c says 
> that it is an interface to PCThreads under GNU/Linux, which AFAIR was an 
> early attempt from the last century to implement a POSIX compliant 
> thread interface.
Ah, OK, thanks, then I'll stick to the Default. I somehow overlooked this 
comment.

Sebastian


> 
> Wolfgang