NPTL auto detection

[Mike Hearn]

Oh, sorry, should have thought of this before. If it were possible to
reliably detect NPTL breakage in the configure script, would you accept
a patch to add this temporarily? Some of the people hitting this problem
have very little technical knowledge, editing wineinstall , make
distclean etc is a bit beyond them, especially if they don't know where
to get help in the first place.

If so, I don't suppose you know of any handy ways to detect it that we
can put in a configure check?

thanks -mike

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 17:59, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com> writes:
> 
> > You said a few months ago Wine would soon detect whether to enable NPTL
> > support at runtime rather than compile time. Presumably this will get in
> > as part of the CodeWeavers merge. Do you know how long that might be? It
> > seems every day people hit this problem and don't realise how to work
> > around it.
> 
> I'm working on it; the way we do it in Crossover is not really
> applicable to Wine (plus it's frankly ugly), but I'm working on the
> proper solution. It's still going to take some time.