Bug#578458: Coro build problems

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:12:04 +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> > > The only things I can suggest is playing around with the backend selection
> > > (I can then hardcode defaults). 
> > Ok, thanks for your hints, we can try that.
> Oh, the most obvious I forgot: on those platforms where pthreads are
> incompatible with POSIX, it is usually possible to use the pthreads
> backend - it will be much slower, but should work on any platform that
> supports pthreads "reasonably" (not much is required). The reason is that
> glibc contains special workarounds for pthreads.

I've now changed debian/rules in svn to use the pthread backend for
the architectures where we see test failures.
Could someone please take a look if this make sense? 

Cheers,
gregor
 
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