From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 22 10:38:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 3E02337B401; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:38:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:38:46 -0800 From: Juli Mallett To: Robert Watson Cc: walt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libpthread question Message-ID: <20021122103846.C32466@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021122103323.B32466@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:34:40PM -0500 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes 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 * De: Robert Watson [ Data: 2002-11-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: libpthread question ] > > 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. Oh, ok. That must be something I forgot. Didn't see it in your message; Got scared :) -- Juli Mallett OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer. ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict. FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message