From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 6 18:00:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C92216A401 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 18:00:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2EE013C468 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 18:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06DAF1FFDD3 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 20:00:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id C091A1FFDD2; Sun, 6 May 2007 20:00:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8694448EC for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 17:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 17:56:41 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070506175150.L11224@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de Cc: Subject: Re: HEADS UP: shared library bump, symbol versioning, libthr change X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 18:00:16 -0000 On Sun, 6 May 2007, Daniel Eischen wrote: Hi, thanks a lot for all the work! > by bumping shared library versions. You can disable > symbol versioning by setting NO_SYMVER. I wonder if we should plug this in into the WITH/WITHOUT_* framework of HEAD instead of adding new NO_* variables? > o The default threading library is changed from libpthread > to libthr. libthr remains installed as libthr, libpthread > is installed as libkse, and libpthread will link to libthr > by default. Compiling with -pthread will continue to work > as before. You can override the default library by setting > DEFAULT_THREAD_LIBRARY=libpthread or libc_r before a > buildworld/installworld. It's DEFAULT_THREAD_LIB= according to your patch. Do you think that DEFAULT_THREAD_LIB=libpthread could cause some confusion because that would actually be libthr? Shouldn't we rename that to libkse for the selection too and leave libpthread unused as a generic term? /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT