Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:25:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current) Message-ID: <20030924131531.J45239@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <200309241652.h8OGqwxS064654@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <XFMail.20030924091322.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309241111040.26896-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <200309241652.h8OGqwxS064654@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > I think it was John Baldwin who wrote: > > >> I think having a magic option to gcc that translates to 'link with the > >> foo library' is rediculous. What's next, a gcc -math to get the math > >> functions in libm? > > As far as POSIX is concerned, that's precisely how it works. `c99 > foo.c -l m' means `link in the math functions, wherever they may > happen to live'. Likewise `-l rt' for realtime -- and (relevant to > this discussion) `-l pthread' for threads. There is no requirement > that any of these libraries exist as such. That may be true, but these libraries don't have gcc options like '-pthread' does to have them linked against. Why should a threaded library be any different than libz, libpng or lib<whatever your binary wants>? > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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