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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:37:34 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, current@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: libc/libc_r changes require rebuild of threaded apps
Message-ID:  <3A6F20EE.15B78584@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20010124084058.S26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010124123019.6201A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <20010124123147.A2215@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Jan 24), Daniel Eischen said:
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > * Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> [010124 05:26] wrote:
> > > > As discussed a few days ago, I've just committed the changes to libc
> > > > and libc_r to allow them to be linked together via -lc_r.  If you're
> > > > running -current and have any threaded apps built using libc_r.so.5,
> > > > you'll need to rebuild them without the -pthread option using -lc_r.
> > > >
> > > > For porters, the __FreeBSD_version has been bumped to 500016 to
> > > > reflect the above change.
> > >
> > > This is ambiguous, can you provide old/new examples of how to
> > > compile/link a single C source file?
> >
> > What's not clear ;-)  Use -lc_r instead of -pthread.
> >
> >       gcc -Wall -o foo foo.c -lc_r
> >
> > The old way was:
> >
> >       gcc -Wall -D_THREAD_SAFE -o foo foo.c -pthread
>
> I thought the old way was just -pthread, and it would handle
> everything.  I did a quick scan of the devel/ and net/ branches of our
> ports tree, and of 43 thread-using ports, 36 of the ports simply add
> -pthread.  Only 7 also add -D_THREAD_SAFE.

It's not a very accurate estimate, as the magic can be in the distfile itself,
i.e. properly written configure script or makefile may know that FreeBSD need a
-pthread and -D_THREAD_SAFE.

-Maxim



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