Rework the pthread-stub design

The current design handles the most common use-cases, although it causes
breakage on others (when a pthreads liked library is dlopened). Refer to
the README for further details.

The new design, makes pthread-stubs a "meta" package which _never_
provides a library but only a .pc file.

pthread-stubs checks if the run-time (libc or otherwise) expose
lightweight pthread symbols to link against and defaults to a full blown
pthread.

This way projects can use the Cflags/Libs without having to know the
details. Alternatively they can directly link against the pthread
implementation, although that might bring unwarranted overhead.

v2:
 - Remove m4 macro, always use -pthread and document why.
 - Sort the symbol list, document how it's derived what is allowed and
what not.
 - Rework the README to start from current state of afairs to past ones.
 - Document platforms that are 'safe' and ones that are not.

v3:
 - Add SVN note about -pthread + Cygwin/mingw/mingw-w64

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 2329572..93123a6 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -1,12 +1,2 @@
 pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
 pkgconfig_DATA = pthread-stubs.pc
-
-if BUILD_LIB
-stubs.c: list.m4 stubs.c.m4
-	m4 -P -I $(srcdir) stubs.c.m4 > $@
-
-lib_LTLIBRARIES = libpthread-stubs.la
-nodist_libpthread_stubs_la_SOURCES = stubs.c
-CLEANFILES = stubs.c
-endif
-EXTRA_libpthread_stubs_la_SOURCES = stubs.c.m4