From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 13:49:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3B516A4B3; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brian.webcom.it (cube.webcom.it [194.185.205.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C92543FBF; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrea@webcom.it) Received: by brian.webcom.it (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3296532; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:49:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:49:19 +0200 From: Andrea Campi To: deischen@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030923204918.GB714@webcom.it> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Freebsd Current Subject: Re: Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:49:27 -0000 [cc trimmed] Hi Daniel, On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:13:11PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > However, I'd > > also suggest making it easy for people to set '-pthread' to give whatever > > pthreads library they think is the most sensible default for their > > installation. > > You can't make it variable. I followed the whole thread and probably I'm being dense, but I still can't get this point. Note that I'm not taking position one way or the other, just asking. Why is that so? Isn't it possible to have -pthread: - do nothing when linking libraries - use libmap.conf(5) (possibly integrated by whatever env magic we want to add to allow this to be temporarily overridden) to decide what to link with. Bye, Andrea -- Press every key to continue.