Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)

Matthew N. Dodd mdodd at FreeBSD.ORG
Wed Sep 24 11:43:22 PDT 2003


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> It isn't clear that libmap can deal with libraries that are
> linked to one specific threads library, and how libmap'd
> applications work.  If mplayer is libmap'd to libthr,
> ogle is libmap'd to libpthread, and both are linked to
> libGL which is linked to libc_r, what happens?

This is why its important to use the same name for the threading library
and never link directly with libkse, libthr, libc_r etc.  Make libpthread
a symlink, please.

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