Re: pthread + SUN Compiler

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Libtool assumes that everything is built with the same compiler.
>
> But that's a limitation.  To work better, those extra flags could be
> stored as compiler-independently as possible, and converted back to
> per-compiler spelling at use time (i.e., at the time something else
> links against this library).  I'm not sure how practicable that is
> though, it would essentially require to put much logic of ACX_PTHREAD
> into the libtool script.  Ugh.

ACX_PTHREAD is really not very good at all so relying on it would be 
very bad.  Just because it happens to (usually) work does not make it 
good.

Bob
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