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hpux: "configure --disable-threads" failure

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Message #20 received at 12765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: John David Anglin <dave.anglin <at> bell.net>
Cc: 12765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12765: "configure --disable-threads" doesn't work with
	coreutils-8.20
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:07:40 -0800

On 11/04/2012 08:29 AM, John David Anglin wrote:
> It seemed reasonable to base this on the configure variable
> USE_POSIX_THREADS.

But the problem is that USE_POSIX_THREADS is set by the
threadlib configuration.

> Another alternative might be to convert sort to use threadlib.

coreutils already uses threadlib, sort of, which is part of
the problem here.  I'm not sure why it does.  The idea
was supposed to be that it uses POSIX threads or nothing.

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