Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 6.3

Chapter 8. General Libraries

Pth-2.0.7

Introduction to Pth

The Pth package contains a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (multithreading) inside event-driven applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.

Package Information

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pth

Installation of Pth

[Caution]

Caution

Don't add the --enable-pthread parameter to the configure command below else you will overwrite the pthread library and interface header installed by the Glibc package in LFS.

Install Pth by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7 &&
install -v -m644    README PORTING SUPPORT TESTS \
                    /usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7

Contents

Installed Program: pth-config
Installed Library: libpth.{so,a}
Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7

Short Descriptions

pth-config

is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the pth(3) library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the pth(3) library.

libpth.{so,a}

contains the API functions used by the GNU Portable Threads Library.

Last updated on 2007-08-15 19:36:18 -0500