docs/95275: Threading libraries in Porter's Handbook

[Pav Lucistnik]

The following reply was made to PR docs/95275; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
To: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq at caraldi.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/95275: Threading libraries in Porter's Handbook
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:34:37 +0200

 Jean-Baptiste Quenot p=ED=B9e v =FAt 04. 04. 2006 v 10:06 +0200:
 > * Pav Lucistnik:
 >=20
 > > How  many ports  need this?   I  never seen  this problem.   I'd
 > > prefer not to add this to PH, if it's of minor impact.
 >=20
 > All  ports that  need linking  with threading  libraries and  that
 > use  ld(1) for  linking.   This problem  arose  on www/resin2  and
 > www/resin3,  I don't  really understand  why other  ports are  not
 > affected.  But if  you look at the man page  ld(1) you will notice
 > that indeed -pthread is not an available option.
 
 If this only affects two ports, may I ask you to rephrase the entry to
 say something like
 
 If case the ld errors out with message about not undestanding -pthread,
 you may want to use gcc as...
 
 --=20
 Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
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