pth-2.0.1-1, GNU Portable Threads

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Reini worte:

> Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
>> I want to contribute and maintain pth, the GNU Portable Threads.
>> 
>> It builds without modifications since version 1.4 but I never got it
>> managed to get a shared library, finally I succeeded now to build it
>> with a DLL.  All tests are passing.


> why did you rename aclocal.m4 to acinclude.m4 in the src package?

There are several special macros included in the provided aclocal.m4
file, if you run aclocal, these are lost and you don't get a proper
configure file because there is no acinclude.m4 which includes these
macros in the source tartball.

> removing libtool.m4 is also unneccessary, since it's bypassed in your
> configure.ac patch.

If this file is present in the source directory, it is picked up by
aclocal, it is the same version as the cygwin libtool, but cygwin
libtool includes specific changes.  Generally I dislike the
distribution of files which are part of other packages, no need to
include libtool.m4 in the source tree.

> BTW: a cygwin case would be better

I doesn't make a difference, pth builds fine with the general
definitions, no special case needed, this is the great thing with this
package, it is really portable.

> seems like a huge and unneded patch to me.
> it's the same autoconf version 2.59 also.

I have stripped it down, now only updated libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh to
the -devel version of a default cygwin installation.

> CYGWIN-PATCHES/README has dos eol

Thanks, didn't noticed it.


> the rest is okay.

Does this count as a pro vote?

> BTW: where do you have the find_executable() patch from?
> winsup/path.cc?

The libtool maintainer is Chuck.  It is the current libtool-devel
version of ltmain.sh for cygwin. Please ask him for details.

Updated tarballs:
http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/pth/README
http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/pth/pth-2.0.1-1-src.tar.bz2
http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/pth/pth-2.0.1-1.tar.bz2
http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/pth/setup.hint


Gerrit
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