RFC: Ports and pthread

[Philip Reynolds]

Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org> 30 lines of wisdom included:
> >> (08.04.2003 @ 1119 PST): Ulrich Spoerlein said, in 2.1K: <<
> > Therefore I propose a new variable to bsd.port.mk used like this:
> > USE_PTHREAD_HACK=       configure
> > 
> > Which will do the following in post-patch:
> > .for file in ${USE_PTHREAD_HACK}
> >         ${REINPLACE_CMD} "s/-lpthread/${PTHREAD_LIBS}/g" ${WRKSRC}/$file
> > .endfor
> > 
> > And PTHREAD_LIBS either set to -pthread, -lpthread, -lthr or -lc_r.
> >> end of "RFC: Ports and pthread" from Ulrich Spoerlein <<
> 
> Even if it's not a GNOME app, I just use:
> USE_GNOME=	gnomehack
> 
> which accomplishes the same thing, and is already there.

Maybe it would be wise to move this as a separate option and let
USE_GNOME define it? 

I certainly had no idea that USE_GNOME did any such thing (is this
documented anywhere?)

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