On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 01:21, Scott Long wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 00:32, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Sean McNeil wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Up front, I'd like to make a few apologies: > >>> > >>>1) I am sorry for the length of this email. > >>>2) Although some very valid opinions have been expressed, I respectfully > >>>have to disagree. This email will hopefully strengthen my position. > >> > >>Please stop spamming multiple lists. > >> > >>No, I don't want to litter all our thread libraries with strong references. > >>As I've said before, build your shared libraries correctly so they don't > >>bring in the threads library. > > > > > > In order to do this, I'm a strong proponent of making -pthread the > > default PTHREAD_LIBS from 4.X and 5.X. This will do the right thing in > > all cases, and reduces diffs among branches. What is keeping this from > > happening from a threading standpoint? > > > > Joe > > > > If you're going to change default behaviour like this then you need to > do it before 5.3 and live with the change for the entire life of 5.x. > I oppose changing it in 4.x. Right, this would only be a change for 5.X, and would make it identical to 4.X. -pthread works for 5.X right now, and will link executables to libpthread. Shared objects will only use libpthread to resolve symbols at link-time. Joe > > Scott -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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