Re: make libobjc and libobjc2 easily renamable, and some fixes for old libobjc with regard to pthreads

[Wolfgang Lux]

Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> With the old libobjc, I ran into another problem, when I change the threading 
> to THREADING=pthreads.
> Then the thr_pthreads.c fails to compile, since the header name I need to 
> include differs, and also some of the threading functions have different number 
> of parameters, and return values. So I wonder, whether the using pthreads there 
> is actually the right thing to do for me on OpenBSD, or whether I misunderstood 
> sth. and the pthreads in the old libobjc is actually sth. completely different.

I assume you want to use THREADING=posix. The file thr-pthread.c says 
that it is an interface to PCThreads under GNU/Linux, which AFAIR was an 
early attempt from the last century to implement a POSIX compliant 
thread interface.

Wolfgang