Re: [ROOT] libthread and linux

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 13:48:22 MEST


No side effects if you don't use threads (either via TThread or by
directly calling the POSIX threads) in your ROOT based app.

Cheers, Fons.



On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 13:07, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What are the side effects of this, ie, why might we not want to do
> this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> cheers
> 
> bruce
> 
> Fons Rademakers writes:
>  > Hi Bruce,
>  > 
>  >   you have to take the ROOT source and in configure disable the thread
>  > support:
>  > 
>  > ./configure --disable-thread
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Cheers, Fons.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 12:53, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
>  > > Hello,
>  > > 
>  > > We have a request from one of our users to use root without using
>  > > libthread.so.  Is this possible?  Is it reasonable?  I'm only asking
>  > > before trying myself just to save time.
>  > > 
>  > > Thanks very much!
>  > > 
>  > > cheers
>  > > 
>  > > bruce
>  > > 
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