Subject: Re: bug#12765: "configure --disable-threads" doesn't work with coreutils-8.20

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:48:51 -0700

On 11/03/2012 07:35 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> The attached change results in a successful build of sort.

I'm afraid that won't work, because it assumes that the
application uses both threadlib and pthread.

Why does coreutils use threadlib, anyway?
Does anybody know?  It seems like overkill
for what coreutils needs.