Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Doug Barton wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, John Birrell wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:25:09AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > > I am a little confused about one thing though. What is going to
> > > happen to third party apps that use -pthread that aren't compiled
> > > through the ports?
> >
> > They need to replace -pthread with their thread library of choice
> > (e.g. -lc_r or -lpthread).
> 
> Errrr...  I'm not sure this is an optimal solution. There is an awful
> lot of software out there which expects -pthread to "just work."
> Wouldn't it make more sense to default it to one thing or the other,
> then make it configurable (isn't this what libmap.conf is supposed to
> help with)?

We've already been over this before.  The problem is not
as bad as you think, and there are other platforms that
don't have -pthread.

-- 
Dan Eischen