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Eitan Adler ha scritto:
> Because a program that uses pthreads *must* use -pthread to both
> compile and link and not use -lpthread.

Is this the reason we have the following in bsd.port.mk? :-)

PTHREAD_CFLAGS?=

We are not talking about correct programming standards, we are talking
about porting software on FreeBSD. Do we really want port maintainers to
do extra work for 'purity'?

> That it happens to work is an
> implementation detail not be relied upon.

It's a *fundamental* implementation detail that I don't think anyone is
going to break.

-- 
Alex Dupre