Re: Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)

From: Daniel Eischen <eischen_at_vigrid.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:19:43 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > It isn't clear that libmap can deal with libraries that are
> > linked to one specific threads library, and how libmap'd
> > applications work.  If mplayer is libmap'd to libthr,
> > ogle is libmap'd to libpthread, and both are linked to
> > libGL which is linked to libc_r, what happens?
> 
> This is why its important to use the same name for the threading library
> and never link directly with libkse, libthr, libc_r etc.  Make libpthread
> a symlink, please.

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.

-- 
Dan Eischen
Received on Wed Sep 24 2003 - 10:19:45 UTC

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