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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:59:23 -0500
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r381955 - head/graphics/gdal
Message-ID:  <55102A4B.2060907@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150323143311.GC27378@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On 3/23/2015 9:33 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 09:24:13AM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> On 3/23/2015 8:57 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:14:13PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>>>> On 3/22/2015 8:58 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 08:11:17PM +0000, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh wr=
ote:
>>>>>> New Revision: 381955
>>>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/381955
>>>>>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r381955/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Log:
>>>>>>   - Use -lpthread instead of -pthread
>>>>>
>>>>> Is -pthread going away anytime soon?  I'm a bit worried of more ali=
ke
>>>>> changing one to another; since they're identical right now on FreeB=
SD,
>>>>> I'd rather reduce amount of patching, leaving whatever is picked by=

>>>>> upstream, unless -lpthread really should be preferred over -pthread=

>>>>> for some reason I'm unaware of (and ready to learn about).
>>>>>
>>>>> ./danfe
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's a pointless change. Tijl explains here
>>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D198116#c4
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is not pointless at all this is a long standing thing that shoul=
d be
>>> cleaned out for a while, portmgr already gave long ago some blanket t=
o some
>>> developers to remove that along with all usage of PTHREAD_LIBS. The r=
eason is
>>> that it is confusing for maintainers, as if they take example on some=
 of our
>>> existing ports they might be driven in the wrong direction.
>>>
>>> Working in cleaning up those is imho important
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bapt
>>>
>>
>> Reading the responses from David and Tijl I'm still at a loss at how
>> this is useful. From my understanding, and what David said, -pthread i=
s
>> more portable. Reading documentation available from simple searching
>> leads me, as a naive developer, to use -pthread. Especially when looki=
ng
>> for Linux documentation. Using either is the same as the other on
>> FreeBSD as well. So why the major change?
>>
>> Removing PTHREAD_LIBS makes sense since it is a needless variable
>> leftover from a more complicated past. But why change -pthread to
>> -lpthread? Why not -lthr since -lpthread is actually an alias to that?=

>=20
> The goal is not to change anything but remove our gratuicious changes a=
nd
> patches.
>=20
> Meaning I am not ok with s/pthread/lpthread/ but I'm ok with removing a=
ll
> PTHREAD_LIBS macros in ports and all patches we do use to replace lpthr=
ead with
> something else
>=20
> Bapt
>=20

Perfect. Thank you for clarifying your stance. I thought perhaps that
was what it was.

--=20
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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