Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:11:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Initial list of ports that fail due to -pthread Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309240204030.2518-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030924060135.GB95116@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:49:50AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > If FreeBSD wants to take the simple approach and only support > > one thread library in ports (-pthread == -lpthread) and not > > make it selectable via PTHREAD_LIBS, then its not a problem. > > It would be nice to be able to support all our thread > > libraries, but I grow weary. > > Just an idea (I hope this hasn't been said before in the mega thread but at > least I didn't get it this way): > > - fix all ports to respect PTHREAD_LIBS _ON THE LINKING STAGE_ (so no > global search & replace, for it shouldn't be used in compile command lines) This sounds nice, but I don't know that there really is much difference in changes needed. > - keep '-pthread' as a compiler option, which maps to a NOOP for compiling > and '-lpthread' (aka libkse) for linking That's already the case; -pthread never did anything on the compile, only the link. > - set PTHREAD_LIBS to the default value of -pthread > - allow PTHREAD_LIBS to be set to something other, e.g. '-lthr', in > /etc/make.conf (or the make command line) This is already the path that ports is going down :-) -- Dan Eischen
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