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npth

brew install npth v1.8 LGPL-2.1-or-later

Portable threading library used by GnuPG and related GNU tools, providing POSIX-like thread abstractions across platforms.

Why you might care

This is a build/runtime dependency for GnuPG, libgcrypt, and other GNU privacy tools. It provides a lightweight, portable threading abstraction that works across Unix-like systems. Most users won't install this directly—it's pulled in automatically by gpg or libgcrypt.

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