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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:57:25 -0500
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/devel/icu: PTHREAD_LIBS clean
Message-ID:  <200611290957.26508@aldan>
In-Reply-To: <20061129230636.aef46d92.nork@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20061127222709.aa35ab22.nork@FreeBSD.org> <200611271114.42304@aldan> <20061129230636.aef46d92.nork@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday 29 November 2006 09:06, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
= > but library may also be not using threads _at all_. -lm, for example, is 
= > happily used by many threaded programs without itself being thread-aware.
= 
= ššššššššI understand your ideal, think so too. šHowever, in fact, it is
= ššššššššunrealistic environment:-(.

Norikatsu, this is not some unreachable ideal (libm is not). If no application 
is calling into a library from multiple threads in parallel, that library 
need not be thread-aware.

You are (slightly) pessimizing your installation by building a thread-aware 
ICU without having a need for it...

	-mi



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