Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:29:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot@caraldi.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/95275: Threading libraries in Porter's Handbook Message-ID: <20060403172905.9D15B6126@vision.anyware> Resent-Message-ID: <200604031730.k33HUEJS037076@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 95275
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Threading libraries in Porter's Handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 03 17:30:13 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jean-Baptiste Quenot
>Release: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD vision.anyware 5.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Mar 9 19:20:53 CET 2006 jbq@vision.anyware:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VISION i386
>Description:
The porter's handbook must be improved because it does not state that ld does
not support -pthread, see patch below. Thanks in advance!
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- book.sgml.orig Mon Apr 3 13:11:37 2006
+++ book.sgml Mon Apr 3 13:28:39 2006
@@ -9529,6 +9529,14 @@
different values, so do not just hardcode
<literal>-pthread</literal> into patches and always use
<makevar>PTHREAD_LIBS</makevar>.</para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>FreeBSD may use value <literal>-pthread</literal> for
+ <makevar>PTHREAD_LIBS</makevar>, but <command>ld</command> does not
+ support this. In this case, it may be desirable to use
+ <command>gcc</command> as linker by setting
+ <makevar>CONFIGURE_ENV</makevar> to <literal>LD=${CC}</literal>.</para>
+ </note>
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