On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:53:41PM -0500, Sleepylight wrote:
>       I'm running RH 6.1 with the out of box SMP kernel on a dual PPro 
> machine.  Now, so far all the software I've downloaded and installed has 
> been in .rpm format.  However, I wanted to get the most recent version 
> of the balsa GTK+ email client.  There was no .rpm available so I got 
> the source code and compiled that instead.  When I ran ./configure one 
> of the messages it listed was that the program would not be built to be 
> multithreaded.  My question is, is this just a program quirk, or should 
> I be using a different C/C++ compiler?  I realize that if a program is 
> not multitrheaded (let alone SMP optomized) that it is going to have a 
> significant impact on the run time.

If you look on the notice posted to the news groups, you need to run configure
with --enable-threads.  That will enable the glibc2.1 threading.  Compiled
like a charm for me.

Good luck!

Matt
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