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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:41:15 +1000
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: [Long] Change PTHREAD_LIBS to -pthread for -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20040608084115.GC3604@freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200406081020.48658.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
References:  <1086673141.18374.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200406081020.48658.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>

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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:20:47AM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> I remember at one time -pthread was completely gone from gcc in 
> -CURRENT, why this was reversed I don't know

The reason was that the gcc people want -pthread to be the standard
way of sucking in thread support via their compiler. They intend the
-pthread option to be used across all operating systems, notably
including Linux. We agreed to live with their design, hence -pthread
was brought back.

-- 
John Birrell



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