Re: 3.2.4 release candidate 1

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Jan-2010, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| I don't understand why you should need pthreads. I guess one of the
| libraries you use is a static and multithreaded, but I really can't
| tell. Adding -lpthread to LIBS should probably help you.

Look at the octave_mutex class defined in liboctave/oct-mutex.cc and
used in the command_editor::event_handler function in
liboctave/cmd-edit.cc.

This problem was solved in the current development sources by these
changes:

changeset:   9488:ee572cdd4b97
user:        John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
date:        Wed Aug 05 13:27:58 2009 -0400
summary:     add configure checks for pthread library and compiler flags

changeset:   9497:54ae52abd4c9
user:        Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>
date:        Thu Aug 06 10:57:11 2009 +0200
summary:     add missing file

These changes to the connfigure script were pre-automake, so they
might apply, but I have not tried to test them.  They also could
depend on other previous changes to the configure scripts and
Makefiles, so I don't know whether it is worth trying to add them.
Maybe it is better to just tell people who have trouble compiling to
add -lpthread to their LDFLGS.

jwe