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Date:      Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:40:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        Freebsd Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)
Message-ID:  <200309241940.h8OJeZC0067604@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309241517300.23494-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
References:  <20030924144141.N35442@sasami.jurai.net> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309241517300.23494-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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<<On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:19:43 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> said:

> Eek, no.  Libpthread is libpthread, libthr is libthr, etc.  A
> symlink doesn't help you anyways because the library/application
> becomes dependent on the thing it is symlink'd to, not the
> symlink.

That depends on what the SONAME entry says....  It is technically
feasible to have libpthread.so by a symlink, provided that all three
thread libraries cooperate by announcing an SONAME of libpthread.so.N.

-GAWollman



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