From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 24 15: 7:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.eastlink.ca (syd.eastlink.ca [24.222.47.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DE137B401; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from u56n134.syd.eastlink.ca (dest@u56n134.syd.eastlink.ca [24.222.56.134]) by mail.eastlink.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05610; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:06:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:07:20 -0400 (AST) From: Craig Hawco X-X-Sender: To: Daniel Eischen Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Alfred Perlstein , , Subject: Re: HEADS UP: libc/libc_r changes require rebuild of threaded apps In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Using -pthread will prevent linking to libc and only link to > libc_r. After the change I just committed, you need to link > to both libc_r and libc (in that order), just like you would > for a threaded application on just about any other OS (only > ours is called libc_r instead of libpthread). Why not just call it libpthread for the sake of consistancy with other OSes? I understand why it was called libc_r, but it no longer contains the libc functionality. I know we like being nonconformist, but sometimes consistancy is a Good Thing. --Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message