"-pthread" == "-lpthread" for shared libs in -CURRENT

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at gmail.com> (from Wed, 13 Jun 2007  
08:37:51 -0400):

> I think this was related to the way we used to support threads in
> 3.x/early 4.x releases. The program was supposed to link with either
> libc or libc_r, but not both and having both libraries loaded at the
> same time was really bad idea. Recording dependency to libc_r or libc
> into shared libraries makes shared libraries that work in both threaded
> and non-threaded programs impossible.

So we can switch to recording the lib dependencies in libs now? I  
think this would help to let firefox do some SSO stuff with kerberos  
(loading it as a plugin causes it to moan because some depending lib  
is not loaded, bsam@ should be able to explain the technical details).

Bye,
Alexander.

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