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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:43:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        h@schmalzbauer.de
Subject:   Re: ports and -current
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309202038570.19227-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030920.164621.68039520.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <3F6BF02F.9040707@schmalzbauer.de>
>             Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> writes:
> : Not only the -pthread removement broke countless ports (some of them are 
> 
> Maybe I missed the reason why FreeBSD needs to be unique wrt threading
> programs and not have -pthread...

Because -pthread allows selection of one specific threadling library,
not multiple.  It is also unnecessary since the library is specified
as a link option, not a compiler option.  In the future, -pthread
will be a NOOP, but it suits us now to have it cause an error so
that ports that don't honor PTHREAD_LIBS can be found and fixed.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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