Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:28:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing -pthread from gcc Message-ID: <3F4F8D58.5F4523AE@mindspring.com> References: <20030829042613.80458.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com>
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"Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > I'm not understanding what the new world order will be, but please try to agree > something with the autoconf people: from my porting experience, autoconf is not > interested on what PTHREAD_LIBS says; it just tries to link with pthread and if > that fails it assumes the platform doesn't support threads at all. This is why autoconf sucks: it tries to identify the platform and make the code conform to that, rather than identifying the platform capabilities (note: different from "does -pthread work?") and using that. This is why imake and xmkmf can compile every X application that uses them, while autoconf and automake can only do it for the platforms they have been explicitly told about. The autoconf program balkanizes things, while imake unites them. I wish autoconf would die. -- Terry
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