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diff --git a/contrib/perl5/ext/Thread/README b/contrib/perl5/ext/Thread/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6b22fb --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/perl5/ext/Thread/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +See the README.threads in the main perl 5.004_xx development +distribution (x >= 50) for details of how to build and use this. +If all else fails, read on. + +If your version of patch can't create a file from scratch, then you'll +need to create an empty thread.h manually first. Perl itself will need +to be built with -DUSE_THREADS yet. If you're using MIT pthreads or +another threads package that needs pthread_init() to be called, then +add -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT. If you're using a threads library that only +follows one of the old POSIX drafts, then you'll probably need to add +-DOLD_PTHREADS_API. I haven't tested -DOLD_PTHREADS_API properly yet +and I think you may still have to tweak a couple of the mutex calls +to follow the old API. + +This extension is copyright Malcolm Beattie 1995-1997 and is freely +distributable under your choice of the GNU Public License or the +Artistic License (see the main perl distribution). + +Malcolm Beattie +mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk |
