Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:01:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> Cc: Freebsd Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309231659480.26876-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030923204918.GB714@webcom.it>
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Andrea Campi wrote: > [cc trimmed] > > Hi Daniel, > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:13:11PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > However, I'd > > > also suggest making it easy for people to set '-pthread' to give whatever > > > pthreads library they think is the most sensible default for their > > > installation. > > > > You can't make it variable. > > I followed the whole thread and probably I'm being dense, but I still can't > get this point. Note that I'm not taking position one way or the other, just > asking. > > Why is that so? Isn't it possible to have -pthread: > > - do nothing when linking libraries This could and should be done. > - use libmap.conf(5) (possibly integrated by whatever env magic we want to > add to allow this to be temporarily overridden) to decide what to link with. No, you can't do that. You're welcome to try. -- Dan Eischen
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