[bug #13413] pthread link failure on freebsd 5.3

[David Ayers]

Follow-up Comment #17, bug #13413 (project gnustep):

Hello Pascal,

You could attach :
a new config.log and the output of:
gmake messages=yes
to the bug report (after a gmake clean).  But I have the feeling that anything
short of access to a box on which we can reproduce the issues will be
inefficient.

I achieved successful test results on Ricardo's i386-unknown-freebsd5.3
yesterday so I assume that we get lucky with -pthread on that architecture but
possibly not on amd64-unknown-freebsd7.0 (which is what you seem to be using
according to the config.log you sent me privatly).  Also I'm not sure whether
GNUstep currently supports any 64-bit architectures. 

Personally, I think it is probably wrong to be using -pthread for FreeBSD ELF
(and possibly for any platform) and we should use the standard -lpthread
mechanisms.

So maybe you could try the following patch, reconfigure -make, install -make,
source GNUstep.(c)sh, reconfigure -base, install -base.  (But I must admit
that I haven't had a chance to test it on i386-unknown-freebsd5.3 yet.)  OTOH,
you may be experiencing 64-bit issues totally unrelated to pthreads.
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File name: make.patch                     Size:9 KB
Patch removing -pthread handling
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