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<a href="https://gitlab.com/rockdaboot">Tim Rühsen</a> created an issue:
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<p dir="auto">Two days ago, Bruno Haible announced a bunch of new modules for gnulib, which look very promising.
It means, we could get rid off our own thread checking/compat code (configure.ac, lib/locks.h).</p>
<p dir="auto">Bruno's message from the gnulib ML:</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm committing a set of gnulib modules that support the essential portion of
POSIX <pthread.h> and its functions.</p>
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<li>pthread-h: A POSIX-like <pthread.h>.</li>
<li>pthread-thread: Creating and controlling POSIX threads.</li>
<li>pthread-once: POSIX once-only control.</li>
<li>pthread-mutex: POSIX mutexes (locks).</li>
<li>pthread-rwlock: POSIX read-write locks.</li>
<li>pthread-cond: POSIX condition variables.</li>
<li>pthread-tss: POSIX thread-specific storage.</li>
<li>pthread-spin: POSIX spin locks.</li>
<li>pthread: Now merely a convenience wrapper for all of the above.</li>
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<p dir="auto">This has been tested on all customary platforms, from glibc systems up to
native Windows with MSVC, and Android.</p>
<p dir="auto">Like for the older 'thread', 'lock', 'cond', 'tls' modules, on mingw systems
the installing user can choose among
--enable-threads=posix (which uses the mingw winpthreads library)
and
--enable-threads=windows (which uses native Windows code, like on MSVC).
The default currently is --enable-threads=posix.
The package developer can change the default by placing an invocation to
gl_AVOID_WINPTHREAD in the configure.ac file.
Why is this useful? Because the pthread-tss test hangs with
--enable-threads=posix
but works fine with
--enable-threads=windows</p>
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