Re: Problems porting Pth (Portable threads)

2001-12-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:08:51AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:07:05PM -0700, Dave Pitts wrote:
>
> > Has anybody successfully ported the GNU Portable Threads (Pth) library to
> > Linux/390?  I've tried with versions 1.3.7 and 1.4.0.
> >
> > I have both  the TurboLinux and SuSE 390 distrbutions and  I get the same
> > compile errors on each distrbuition.  The configurator does figure out the
> > system correctly as  "s390-ibm-linux-gnu2.2glibc2.1".
> >
> > Thought I'd ask before jumping into the code.
>
> What compile errors do you get?

Also, have you considered using plain pthreads instead?  I have had some
success using them on s390.

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 - mdz



Re: Problems porting Pth (Portable threads)

2001-12-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:07:05PM -0700, Dave Pitts wrote:

> Has anybody successfully ported the GNU Portable Threads (Pth) library to
> Linux/390?  I've tried with versions 1.3.7 and 1.4.0.
>
> I have both  the TurboLinux and SuSE 390 distrbutions and  I get the same
> compile errors on each distrbuition.  The configurator does figure out the
> system correctly as  "s390-ibm-linux-gnu2.2glibc2.1".
>
> Thought I'd ask before jumping into the code.

What compile errors do you get?

It compiles out of the box on Debian, and "make check" succeeds.  Maybe it
is just a matter of building against a more up-to-date toolchain and
libraries.

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 - mdz