[jakub@redhat.com:Linking against libpthread via -pthread?

[Steve Kargl]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:39:08PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Feb 10), Steve Kargl said:
> > Some background information:  I routinely build GCC mainline on
> > i386-*-freebsd and amd64-*-freebsd.  GCC mainline is introducing
> > OpenMP support.  When libgomp.so.1 is built, the compiler is given
> > the -pthread option throughout the construction of libgomp.so.1.
> > However, a "ldd libgomp.so.1" shows no dependence on libpthread.so.2
> 
> There was a discussion about this back when the default switched from
> libc_r to libpthread, and I think the consensus was that shared
> libraries should never record dependencies against threads libs, which
> means you have to add -pthread to the link line when building the final
> executable.  This avoids problems where an executable links to three
> shlibs, one library is linked to libc_r, one's linked to libkse, and a
> third is linked to libpthread.
> 

Does this still apply with the symbol versioning that was committed
some weeks (months?) ago?   Additionally, I thought libc_r is deprecated
in FreeBSD-current (has it been moved to the attic?).

-- 
Steve