[XviD-devel] pthreads

[tripp]

--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Michael Militzer <michael at xvid.org> wrote:

> From: Michael Militzer <michael at xvid.org>
> Subject: Re: [XviD-devel] pthreads
> To: xvid-devel at xvid.org
> Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 10:11 AM

Thanks for the reply.

> > 1. is there some changelog for the latest changes in cvs?

> the changelog is maintained by hand upon releases and not
> always up to date.

by hand?
are they written in a leather bounded book,
and kept in a dark tower by a sage 'bookkeeper"?
:)

> You can use a tool like cvsps to track all CVS changes.

hmm, i'm on windows, looks like getting cvsps together 
would be difficult.

failing that, maybe some kind soul,
could give a shortlist of major changes since 1.1.3. 

> > 2. i compile with msys/mingw
> > on ./configure i get the following:
> >
> > <snip>
> > checking math.h usability... yes
> > checking math.h presence... yes
> > checking for math.h... yes
> > checking pthread.h usability... yes
> > checking pthread.h presence... yes
> > checking for pthread.h... yes
> > checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... no
> > configure: WARNING: Pthread not supported. No SMP support
> > configure: creating ./config.status
> > config.status: creating platform.inc

> For your configure warning, it looks like you have the
> pthread headers but the linking test fails. So you 
> probably don't have a pthread library, have
> a wrong library or it's in the wrong path. Make sure
> you have pthread properly installed.

the lib is present,  and installed properly.
i have it installed statically, and both x264 and ffmpeg (patched)
link to it fine.

any short cut tricks,
or pointers?

i'm afraid i don't understand code, 
so i'm going nowhere alone.


ty
tripp