[Gm2] Re: Report on gm2-2010-04-07 on Solaris 10/sparc

[john o goyo]

On 09/04/10 10:53 AM, Gaius Mulley wrote (in part):
> > > On a different issue I think a few more execution tests will pass if
> > > you can install libpth-dev (gm2 requires these to implement
> > > coroutines).  I'll produce an autoconf message to catch this.
> >
> > I know very little about GNU portable threads.  Can you use POSIX pthreads
> > (part of Solaris) in their place?
>
> gm2 only uses the context primitives of GNU Pth (no actual thread
> primitives are used and thus the pthread scheduler is never invoked).
> Not sure if this is possible under POSIX pthreads - but even if it
> were I still think using GNU Pth is the right approach :-) given the
> portability of the library

I was not making a value judgement.  I was just looking for an easy way out
but I can always put the library somewhere and then add its path to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

john