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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:18:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: libpthread question
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Robert Watson wrote:

> 
> 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.

I think we did.  I think it probably should be installed as libkse
until it's ready for prime-time.

-- 
Dan Eischen


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