From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 22 10:34:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2F337B401; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:34:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C3143E6E; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:34:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id gAMIYeBF068129; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:34:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:34:40 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Juli Mallett Cc: walt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libpthread question In-Reply-To: <20021122103323.B32466@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: > > This is expected behavior -- libpthread is currently disconnected from the > > build. I'd actually like to see it connected to the build, with an > > appropriate "WARNING: DRAGONS INCLUDED" man page also hooked up to > > discourage accidental use. At least, assuming David Xu, Jon Mini, etc, > > are ready for the resulting bug reports they'll get. > > No. You really don't want to do this. A lot of ports will see > -lpthread and try to use it instead of letting gcc use its best > judgement about what threads system to use (-pthread). And in the > current state, that means a _lot_ of broken stuff. I thought we discussed installing it as -lkse at one point to avoid that scenario. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message