The docs used to say thread support was optional -- it's mandatory now.
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- A thread implementation is needed, unless you want to compile GLib
- without thread support, which is not recommended. The thread support
- in GLib can be based upon several native thread implementations,
- e.g. POSIX threads, DCE threads or Solaris threads.
+ A thread implementation is needed. The thread support in GLib
+ can be based upon several native thread implementations, e.g.
+ POSIX threads, DCE threads or Solaris threads.
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