Compiling with pthreads

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:42:02PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
> > should it hurt anyone/anything?
> 
> Standard headers like pthread.h and sched.h are OK to install to includedir.
> I'd be more worried
> about /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread/config.h though.
> That's a really generic name and looks like it could definitely cause some
> conflicts.

win32 pthreads is a mess in this respect. config.h is a file generated
by their configure.ac,which has all the autoconf HAVE_XXX macros set.
Even worse, this file is included in pthread.h, thus totally polluting
your application's namespace. IMHO, this makes win32 pthreads unusable

Daniel
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