Yes, we discussed this now 3 years ago, and I should have made it the default at that time. Oh well, I have just committed a patch for this, so our upcoming release will be pthread enabled by default on Linux.
allan On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Aug 10 17:47 Gerhard Jaeger wrote (excerpt): > >> On Friday 09 August 2013 11:10:59 Rolf Bensch wrote: >> [...] >>> >>> Why is pthread disabled by default for Linux? >> >> >> this is IIRC a left over from ancient days. A couple of years ago >> the pthread support was added and it should work... > > > FYI: > > This is used in Debian since Feb 2009 with no issues so far > and accordingly since openSUSE 11.4 (i.e. since Sep 2010) > we also use "configure ... --enable-pthread" and we also > had no issues so far, see > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633780 > > > Perhaps nowadays pthread should be enabled by default for Linux? > > > Kind Regards > Johannes Meixner > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany > HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
