svn commit: r40970 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook

[Eitan Adler]

On 14 February 2013 12:08, Alex Dupre <ale at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Perhaps if one is changing other things it doesn't hurt to also fix
>> this.  It isn't a big priority though.
>
> I agree with you that using -pthread on compiling and linking is The
> Right Thing. My objection is that the porter's handbook says maintainers
> *must* patch ports to use -pthread. When PTHREAD_CFLAGS/LIBS were added
> to bsd.port.mk (and such requirements added to porter's handbook) there
> was a specific actual reason and we should obey. Now there isn't
> anymore, we can finally live happy and stop patching ports.
>
> A more useful addition in the Porter's handbook IMHO would be an entry
> about 'ltverhack' to avoid useless shared library bumps. Even this is
> not mandatory, but at least we get a huge gain.

okay. I agree with you entirely.


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Eitan Adler
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