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Subject: Re: ports/devel/icu: PTHREAD_LIBS clean
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On Wednesday 29 November 2006 09:06, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
= > but library may also be not using threads _at all_. -lm, for example, is 
= > happily used by many threaded programs without itself being thread-aware.
= 
= ššššššššI understand your ideal, think so too. šHowever, in fact, it is
= ššššššššunrealistic environment:-(.

Norikatsu, this is not some unreachable ideal (libm is not). If no application 
is calling into a library from multiple threads in parallel, that library 
need not be thread-aware.

You are (slightly) pessimizing your installation by building a thread-aware 
ICU without having a need for it...

	-mi