Thanks John. I was tempted to modify the autoconf script in order to support the pthreads library automatically, In fact, I was evaluating the ACX_PTHREAD too (that one >From Steven G. Johnson) but found issues. Some platforms require a special compiler to support pthreads. AIX for example. That means, in order to accommodate changes, all autoconf scripts should be rewritten. Too risky for our beloved stability. And since this is not a key feature at all, I just switched the toggle off by default. Let`s time pass to check if multithreading works as expected. If so, we could mark lcms.pc as thread safe.
Regards Marti -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Cupitt Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:53 PM Cc: lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Lcms-user] pthread support in lcms 1.16 On 12/29/06, Marti Maria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And especially if that meant that > > it is now safe to share cmsHTRANSFORM between threads ? > > Yep. Great! Our project has been waiting on this too. > conflicts. For the remaining 0,1% you may turn > on the pthread support by editing lcms.h, but in > my testing it worked fine without that. It's not so easy for users of lcms to decide whether the installed version is thread-safe. And I think lcms.pc needs to know about this too: it should add -lpthreads to the library line, and possibly -D_REENTRANT to the cflags. How about testing for threads in configure.in (with a switch to turn off threads if required) and if they are found, setting LCMS_THREADSAFE (for example). I used to use the ACX_PTHREAD macro when I had my own thread wrapper, perhaps there's something better now. I could try to make a patch if you like. Another solution would be to use a thread wrapper library like gthread, though of course I can understand reluctance to make another dependency. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
