Re: Unable to detach thread

[Adam Fedor]

Sébastien Pierre wrote:
> Le vendredi, 15 nov 2002, à 05:08 Europe/Paris, Adam Fedor a écrit :
>
> > Well there's really only two possibilities. Either the runtime wasn't 
> > compiled with threads, or there's a problem with the lower-level 
> > thread library.
> >
> > You could check in gnustep-make, the config.make file, 'objc_threaded' 
> > should have a thread library to link to.
>
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> You're right, there was no objc_threaded library. I had to specify 
> --with-thread-lib="-L /usr/lib -lpthread" on my Debian system when 
> recompiling gnustep-make.
>
> Maybe there is something wrong in the GNUstep make 1.5.0 configure 
> script, because the pthread lib was in /usr/lib, so it should have been 
> found. This would slightly ease the process of installing GNUstep-make. 
> I would also add that some Unixes (like Darwin) do not have a pthread 
> lib, because it seems like the pthreads are defined within the system 
> library, and I'm not sure GNUstep would be thread-enabled in this case.
>
> Thanks a lot for your advice anyway, because I now have a working port 
> of my application :)

Well that's even weirder, since the Objective-C runtime (libobjc) needs 
to be compiled to use threads also, but if it was, why didn't you get a 
link error when -lpthreads was not included?

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