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diff --git a/devel/libpthread-stubs/pkg-descr b/devel/libpthread-stubs/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5669418fead7 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/libpthread-stubs/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This library provides weak aliases for pthread functions not provided in libc +or otherwise available by default. Libraries like libxcb rely on pthread +stubs to use pthreads optionally, becoming thread-safe when linked to +libpthread, while avoiding any performance hit when running single-threaded. +libpthread-stubs supports this behavior even on platforms which do not supply +all the necessary pthread stubs. On platforms which already supply all the +necessary pthread stubs, this package ships only the pkg-config file +pthread-stubs.pc, to allow libraries to unconditionally express a dependency +on pthread-stubs and still obtain correct behavior. + +WWW: http://xcb.freedesktop.org/ |