Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.2-868

Chapter 9. General Libraries

npth-1.8

Introduction to NPth

The NPth 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.

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Package Information

Installation of NPth

Install NPth by running the following commands: 

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

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: npth-config
Installed Library: libnpth.so
Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

npth-config

is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the npth 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 npth library

libnpth.so

contains the API functions used by the New Portable Threads Library