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author | Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> | 1997-05-26 22:17:17 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> | 1997-05-26 22:17:17 +0000 |
commit | 873b9044b5cea8cc3e8d2af7e52cf7b5d0d9f736 (patch) | |
tree | f276a89e0813aa6981a90e520784df4ca9087ad9 | |
parent | a00c28cdbeae62e90e08c1908a98856de6be3a3d (diff) | |
download | guile-873b9044b5cea8cc3e8d2af7e52cf7b5d0d9f736.tar.gz |
Clarify description of --enable-threads.
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -56,8 +56,12 @@ cooperative threading. If you use this switch, Guile will also build and install the QuickThreads non-preemptive threading library, libqt.a, which you will need to link into your programs after libguile.a. That is, you should pass the switches -lguile -qt to your -linker. Coop threads are not yet thoroughly tested; once they are, -they will be enabled by default. +linker. + +Coop threads are not yet thoroughly tested; once they are, they will +be enabled by default. The interaction with blocking I/O is pretty ad +hoc at the moment. In our experience, bugs in the thread support do +not affect you if you don't actually use threads. --enable-dynamic-linking --- Build a Guile executable and library providing Scheme functions which can load a shared library and |