From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: posix threads with djgpp
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >But not everyone is thread saavy, so the FAQ volume quadruple.
> >There are people in this newsgroup strugling from DOS --> Un*x. Now
> >imagine having to deal with Thread too ...  I don't know if the
> >advantage will be visible.
> 
> Solution: two libc's. One is a "basic" libc for making "basic" DOS
> apps; the other is an "advanced" libc for making threaded apps.

The experience of 10 years of DJGPP development suggests that this is
a bad idea: it confuses users and causes lots of FAQs.

Thus, the current trend in DJGPP is to *eliminate* multiple libraries
with similar functionality, as much as possible.  Several libraries
are already empty (kept only for back-compatibility with old
Makefile's): see libpc.a and libg.a in your lib subdirectory.

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