spufs: User space thread library

[Geoff Levand]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Middeweken 05 Oktober 2005 17:03, Geoff Levand wrote:
> 
>>It makes maintenance of both the build system and the distribution 
>>packaging easier by providing higher level abstractions and 
>>standard behavior.  There are weaknesses with automake and 
>>libtool, but those are well known.  At any rate, its your 
>>package, just use what you find useful.
>>
>>What 'extra overhead' are you concerned about?
>>
> 
> The overhead I see is in debugging the stuff when it doesn't work.
> Autoconf can be hard to debug already, but I think that's worth it
> because most users know how to run ./configure rather than having
> to look at the Makefiles. I definitely like your configure.ac
> file and the reordering of the files.
> 
> For the other autotools, I think they make work harder instead of 
> easier for small projects, so I'd rather do simple Makefile.in
> files in the places that need configuration.
 
Sounds reasonable.

> BTW: Are you ok with licensing your configure.ac under LGPL
> instead of GPL or did you copy parts from some other GPL package?
> IMHO, the files in the package all need have the same license
> for simplicity.
> 

LGPL is OK, I codded it from scratch, so feel free to change it
to this license announcement.  You can also then remove the 
file COPYING.

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-Geoff