Problem with -pthread linking

[Alejandro Pulver]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:03:09 +0100
Michael Nottebrock <lofi at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, 21. December 2006 19:56, Alejandro Pulver wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I was updating the games/r1q2 port which consists of a client
> > executable (r1q2) that loads the render (ref_gl.so) at run-time with
> > dlopen(), when I noticed it wasn't able to load it.
> >
> > The reason is that the render needs SDL, which needs pthread but
> > neither the render or SDL have a reference to pthread (even though the
> > render is linked with `sdl-config --libs` which includes '-pthread').
> >
> > If I link the render with '-lpthread' it adds the reference (is
> > reported by 'ldd') and works.
> >
> > Is there a cleaner way to do this?
> 
> Using -pthread effectively means that references to threading functions always 
> need to be resolved through executables instead of shared libraries, i.e. 
> you'll probably need to link rlq2 itself with -pthread.
> 

Thank you, it works now so I could update the port.

Best Regards,
Ale
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