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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -pthread deprecated, but when?
Message-ID:  <20030909161233.C42161@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <1063113297.64124.76.camel@wolverine.home.net>
References:  <20030909042349.GA686@chihiro.leafy.idv.tw> <200309090942.17317@harrymail> <1063113297.64124.76.camel@wolverine.home.net>

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Khairil Yusof wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:07, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> > Any occurences of -lc_r should be changed to ${PTHREAD_LIBS} too.
>
> Seems that -lc_r is set by default in bsd.port.mk for ${PTHREAD_LIBS}.

The reason we use the variable is that it expands differently on
different platforms, so in theory it's always doing the right thing.

> Does it mean that we should be able to specify a pthread library in
> future as a make option for installing ports?

It means that you should always use the existing method of substituting
any instances of -pthread or -lc_r that are hard coded into a port with
${PTHREAD_LIBS}.

Doug

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