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Re: Libtool on FreeBSD with pthreads (with patch)


From: Scott James Remnant
Subject: Re: Libtool on FreeBSD with pthreads (with patch)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 15:54:31 +0100

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 22:19 +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 23:36 +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> >>Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >>
> >>>What version of libtool are you using?  It is my understanding that 
> >>>current libtool already captures these options in the .la file.
> >>
> >>I am not sure if -pthread is broken in all 1.5.x and fixed in HEAD, is 
> >>broken everywhere, or is only broken in old 1.5.x releases. Scott should 
> >>have some kind of clue...
> >>
> > 
> > No, it doesn't place -pthread in dependency_libs, because older versions
> > of Libtool break extremely heavily when found their.  It should honour
> > it on the command line or if found in dependency_libs though.
> 
> Ah, okay, I remember that now. I did just add an inherited_build_depends var 
> to the .la in HEAD though perhaps we should put -pthread in there?
> 
Sounds like a good idea; I'd also like to get in a var to remember what
compiler was used to compile the shared library ... so when you link a
C++ library you use g++ instead.

Sadly new job and other open source projects (dpkg) isn't giving me much
time to hack on Libtool :-(

> > There's another more interesting bug caused by Libtool's use of -
> > nostdlib, gcc will actually fail to link -lpthread in with this flag
> > even if you give -pthread on the command line.
> > 
> > We shouldn't be using -nostdlib anyway.
> 
> I never followed that one myself.
> 
In which direction?

Scott
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