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On (2003/09/23 19:35), Daniel Eischen wrote:

> The applications is free to link to whatever it wants;
> we're not changing that.  If it wants to link to 1:1
> libthr or whatever, then it had better be sure to use
> -lthr because -pthread won't do it regardless of whether
> it is a NOOP or not.

Okay, so what are we supposed to do to ports that are now broken because
-pthread doesn't exist (e.g. devel/pwlib)?

This discussion has gone around in circles and I haven't read every
message, but it's pretty obvious there's a lot of confusion.

Is there a simple rule we should follow when trying to fix ports, or do
we have to think now?  At the moment, I'm just patching configure files
to use ${PTHREAD_LIBS} instead of -pthread, and pushing PTHREAD_LIBS
into the ports' CONFIGURE_ENV.

Ciao,
Sheldon.