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Date:      Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:54:06 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Cc:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Subject:   Re: RFC: [Long] Change PTHREAD_LIBS to -pthread for -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <1086717246.68846.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200406081817.43175.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
References:  <1086673141.18374.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200406081020.48658.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20040608084115.GC3604@freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au> <200406081817.43175.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>

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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:17, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:41, John Birrell wrote:
> > 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.=20
>=20
> I see. How do we address the issue of having multiple threads libraries t=
o=20
> choose from then? I take it using the libmap feature is not the answer.

Yes, it would work the same way it does today.  By default, -pthread
would just link to libpthread, but it would do so in an intelligent
manner.  One could always use libmap to adjust this after the fact.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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