[sane-devel] pthread support

[m. allan noah]

Yes, we discussed this now 3 years ago, and I should have made it the
default at that time. Oh well, I have just committed a patch for this,
so our upcoming release will be pthread enabled by default on Linux.

allan

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Aug 10 17:47 Gerhard Jaeger wrote (excerpt):
>
>> On Friday 09 August 2013 11:10:59 Rolf Bensch wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> Why is pthread disabled by default for Linux?
>>
>>
>> this is IIRC a left over from ancient days. A couple of years ago
>> the pthread support was added and it should work...
>
>
> FYI:
>
> This is used in Debian since Feb 2009 with no issues so far
> and accordingly since openSUSE 11.4 (i.e. since Sep 2010)
> we also use "configure ... --enable-pthread" and we also
> had no issues so far, see
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633780
>
>
> Perhaps nowadays pthread should be enabled by default for Linux?
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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