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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hm, the so-called AIO check is rather a pthreads check:
> 
> #include <pthread.h>
> int main(void) { pthread_mutex_t lock;  return 0; }
> 
> If that compiles, a working -lpthread is assumed. It's buggy in itself  
> because it first sets AIOLIBS="", then compiles with unchanged empty  
> $AIOLIBS and then sets AIOLIBS="-lpthread".
>
> >>AIOLIBS is set to -lpthread but that is not available on Haiku.
> >
> >Well we should have a pthread lib available though...

Note that "-lpthread" is not even a portable way to get pthreads -
even if it links successfully, it need not behave correctly.  (Think
of libc having different versions for threads and no-threads).

Maybe that's why Haiku doesn't have -lpthread.

-- Jamie