Re: Remove support for old Solaris threads

2019-07-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Tom, > the gnulib POSIX thread support has been unbuildable on Solaris < 7. > > Just to see what state it's in on Solaris 2.6 I changed the witness back > to pthread_cancel ... We just this week changed the documentation to state that Solaris < 9 is unsupported. [1] Support by Oracle for So

Re: Remove support for old Solaris threads

2019-07-08 Thread Paul Eggert
Tom G. Christensen wrote: Do note though that since you changed the witness symbol in 0f336e1192 the gnulib POSIX thread support has been unbuildable on Solaris < 7. Although it's fine if Bruno fixes that, it's not necessary as Sun stopped supporting Solaris 6 long ago. Generally speaking we

Re: Remove support for old Solaris threads

2019-07-08 Thread Tom G. Christensen
On 06/07/19 03:38, Bruno Haible wrote: The old Solaris threads facility was needed for portability to the ancient Solaris 2.4. Solaris >= 2.5.1 has POSIX threads. Do note though that since you changed the witness symbol in 0f336e1192 the gnulib POSIX thread support has been unbuildable on Sola

Remove support for old Solaris threads

2019-07-05 Thread Bruno Haible
ads=solaris any more. Since this code is in the way of unifying the thread, lock, cond, tls modules with the 'pthread' module, I'm removing it. 2019-07-05 Bruno Haible thread, lock, cond, tls: Remove support for old Solaris threads. Solaris >= 2.5.1 has POSIX