Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Ian Dowse wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309241029001.26896-100000 at pcnet5.pcnet.com>, Daniel
>  Eischen writes:
> >On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Scott Long wrote:
> >> PTHREAD_LIBS is a great tool for the /usr/ports mechanism, but doesn't
> >> mean anything outside of that.
> >
> >That just meant it makes it easier to maintain ports so that
> >they are PTHREAD_LIBS compliant (they would break when linked).
> >I know it has no bearing on 3rd party stuff.
> 
> Just to throw one further approach out on the table, below is a
> patch that makes gcc read from a file to determine what library to
> associate with the -pthread flag. It's a hack of course, and probably
> neither correct or optimal.

Hey, neat.  I wouldn't have known how to do such a thing from
gcc.

-- 
Dan Eischen