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Re: compile bug in pthread of 16nov97
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Jones)
Wed May 14 14:15:25 1997
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 14:05:44 -0400
From: Rodney Jones <jonesr@everyware.com>
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
Michael J. Gourlay wrote:
>
> }Just to let you know,
> }
> }If you're sure that you're running IRIX 6.2, there is a native version of
> }pthreads for IRIX 6.2 that is available. It works very well. I've been
> }using it for the past 12 months.
> }
> }David Green-Seed
> }david@green-seed.com
>
> By native, I assume you mean that SGI puts it out. I have installed
> the "development options" CDROM but there are not pthreads on any of
> the machines in our cluster. Is the pthreads package supposed to be
> on the development options CDROM or is there another place that I
> should get these from? If they are supposed to be on the development
> CDROM, then do you have any guesses about why I did not see them
> there? (I.e. are they part of some other package, or did I just not
> read the list thoroughly? -- or perhaps I've just forgotten that I
> saw it...)
>
> Thanks for the tip. I guess I would prefer a native version,
> especially on the Onyx which has 8 processors. One would expect the
> manufacturers to provide an optimized version of such libraries.
>
> Thanks again. I'm looking forward to your reply about where I can get
> this software.
>
> PS: Is anyone else aware that there are several members of the
> pthreads list whose email addresses bounce stuff sent to them?
>
> --
> Michael J. Gourlay Physics Graduate Michael.Gourlay@colorado.edu
> Duane Physics D031, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
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The pthreads package is actually a patch for IRIX 6.2 and ships with
6.3. Contact SGI about the patches for 6.2. We have been using this
version of pthreads extensively, and it appears to be of good quality.
--
Rodney Jones
UNIX Development Group Manager mailto:jonesr@everyware.com
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