[m-dev.] for review: add threads options to ml

[Fergus Henderson]

On 06-Apr-2000, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 1
> 
> Add some options to ml for use in linking programs which use Aditi.
> The Aditi API library uses threads internally, so programs which use
> it must link with the thread libraries.
> 
> scripts/ml.in:
> 	Add option `--use-thread-libs' to link with the thread libraries
> 	when the Mercury code doesn't use coroutining/parallelism,
> 	but a C library does.

That one looks OK.

> 	Add option `--use-old-osf-thread-libs' to pass
> 	`-lpthreads -lc_r' to the linker on DEC OSF/1. 
> 	Linking the Aditi API library fails when no
> 	options are passed.

That one looks like a bit of a wart to me.
Couldn't this be handled by an autoconf test?

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