cvs commit: src/lib Makefile

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 12:10:37PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Scott Long wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > deischen    2003/08/09 08:29:53 PDT
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     lib                  Makefile 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add libpthread to the alpha build.
> > >   
> > >   Requested by ru: Since the majority of archs can now support the
> > >   build of libpthread, rearrange the Makefile to treat libpthread
> > >   as an exception.
> > >   
> > >   Revision  Changes    Path
> > >   1.168     +3 -9      src/lib/Makefile
> > > 
> > 
> > Excellent!  By my count, that leaves sparc64 as the last Tier-1
> > platform, correct?  Maybe Jake, Thomas, or Jean-Mark can tackle it?
> 
> Jake's currently working on sparc64; I've already reviewed
> his libpthread bits.
> 
> FYI, there is still work to be done on ia64 and alpha.  Only
> the userland bits are present for alpha; the kernel still needs
> a bit of support but it should be straight forward for someone
> (marcel!) to implement.  ia64 may have some other problems
> to deal with before we can see if the KSE bits are correct.

Support on ia64 is fairly good these days with the async context
support. I'm actually looking at a bug that may be libpthread
related: We can call _thr_sig_add() with a NULL thread pointer
when called from kse_check_completed(). The exact situation is
not known yet. I'll spend some time on it today...

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