pthread query

[Karl Heyes]

Excuse the novice question..

Whats the official stance on the use of the -pthread (and similar) flag
used on the building of shared libs.  libtool drops the -pthread flag at
the final stage which can show up as unresolved symbols in the client
app. For normal C programs I can work around it by supplying the
-pthread at it's link time but other apps such as those in python have
been reported as also showing these unresolved symbols.

I've currently worked around it by modifying the ltmain.in using the
patch at
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2002-12/txt00000.txt
but I wanted to know what the recommended way is ?


karl.
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