pth-2.0.1-1, GNU Portable Threads

[Reini Urban]

Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
> 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?

yes, +1 from me.

>>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.

thanks.

> 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

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Reini Urban
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