Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:13:51 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: "Karl H. Beckers" <karl.h.beckers@gmx.net>, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: threading in FreeBSD (acx_pthreads) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0802041211450.13899@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <86ir14d4xg.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <5913.192.9.112.196.1202124683.squirrel@www.our-isp.org> <86ve54epyy.fsf@ds4.des.no> <43451.192.9.112.196.1202141118.squirrel@www.our-isp.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0802041112260.13899@sea.ntplx.net> <86zlugd5u0.fsf@ds4.des.no> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0802041157030.13899@sea.ntplx.net> <86ir14d4xg.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---559023410-1483920592-1202145231=:13899 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes: >> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: >>> Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes: >>>> No, do not use -lpthread. Refer to John Baldwin's response, -pthread = is >>>> what you should be using. >>> That is not what POSIX says. >> As far as I know, POSIX doesn't say how you link to a threads library. > > Sure it does, in the specification for the C compiler command. > >>> That is not what our own man pages say, either. >> Our ports system uses -pthread as the default, and we've been pushed >> this way because GNU has set it as some form of standard. All the >> macros out there seem to expect this as well. > > Which completely dodges my point about the man pages. Our man pages need to be updated. > And no matter how grand acx_pthreads is, it won't DTRT on FreeBSD > versions that have libkse as the default thread library. It depends on your point of view, but regardless it can be overridden with PTHREAD_LIBS to whatever thread library you want. If it were ever imported into our ports system, it would have to be patched to obey PTHREAD_LIBS, so why not make it play nice? --=20 DE ---559023410-1483920592-1202145231=:13899--
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