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

Pietro Cerutti gahr at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 14 18:24:30 UTC 2013


On 2013-Feb-14, 12:38, Eitan Adler wrote:
> 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.

Fine to me too. 
I won't be able to commit til tomrrow. Anybody feel free to fix, if
wanted.

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Pietro Cerutti
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