From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 08:41:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E3D16A4CE; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:41:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au (adsl-20-121.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.20.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5567243D41; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:41:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: by freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au (Postfix, from userid 102) id 83B8B6AA57; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:41:15 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:41:15 +1000 From: John Birrell To: Michael Nottebrock Message-ID: <20040608084115.GC3604@freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au> References: <1086673141.18374.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200406081020.48658.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406081020.48658.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Joe Marcus Clarke cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: [Long] Change PTHREAD_LIBS to -pthread for -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:41:30 -0000 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