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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:25:07 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: libkse -> libpthread switch
Message-ID:  <20040130152507.GC225@madman.celabo.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10401300931140.13821-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
References:  <20040130142603.GE99895@madman.celabo.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10401300931140.13821-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:38:32AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> When you start [re]building ports now, they may pick up libpthread
> instead of PTHREAD_LIBS (currently -lc_r).  Then you may have
> things linked to both libc_r and libpthread, or new applications
> may depend on libraries that were linked to libc_r.  You can't
> depend on more than one threads library.
> 
> I suspect it's going to be a mess for a while, but use of
> an appropriate libmap.conf should make things usable again.
> After ports catches up to these changes and you rebuild all
> your ports with the new threads library, then you'll no
> longer need the libmap.conf.  Unless you have nvidia provided
> drivers/libraries.

Thanks kindly for the explanation!  Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org jvidrine@verio.net nectar@freebsd.org nectar@kth.se



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