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Subject: Re: Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)
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<<On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:19:43 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> said:

> Eek, no.  Libpthread is libpthread, libthr is libthr, etc.  A
> symlink doesn't help you anyways because the library/application
> becomes dependent on the thing it is symlink'd to, not the
> symlink.

That depends on what the SONAME entry says....  It is technically
feasible to have libpthread.so by a symlink, provided that all three
thread libraries cooperate by announcing an SONAME of libpthread.so.N.

-GAWollman