Threads, glibc, and all that

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> 
> > Ulrich, how about putting this in ...../include/g++? We can check
> > to see if it is necessary before we install it. I don't think it
> > will hurt anything. We can remove it during next installation when
> > we determine it is no longer needed. A patch to libstdc++ shoudn't
> > be hard.
> 
> Well, the patch is ok.  But the hack shouldn't be installed
> unconditionally (only if the problem is real) and how to remove it the
> next time?  We certainly don't want to carry around baggage from the

If it is ok with everyone, I will provide a patch for libstdc++
by this weekend. It will test before using/installing it and remove the
installed file during "make install" if necessary.

> old days, means, we don't want to have the remove-this-file hack in
> egcs-3.4.
> 
> This is an isolated problem which might for now be fixed with a
> comment on the problem in the README.
> 

That is also fine with me.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)