Threading libraries

[Jean-Baptiste Quenot]

Please   find  the   documentation   patch   attached,  apply   in
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook.

Best regards,
-- 
     Jean-Baptiste Quenot
aka  John Banana Qwerty
http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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--- book.sgml.orig	Mon Apr  3 13:11:37 2006
+++ book.sgml	Mon Apr  3 13:28:39 2006
@@ -9529,6 +9529,14 @@
 	  different values, so do not just hardcode
 	  <literal>-pthread</literal> into patches and always use
 	  <makevar>PTHREAD_LIBS</makevar>.</para>
+
+  <note>
+    <para>FreeBSD may use value <literal>-pthread</literal> for
+      <makevar>PTHREAD_LIBS</makevar>, but <command>ld</command> does not
+      support this.  In this case, it may be desirable to use
+      <command>gcc</command> as linker by setting
+      <makevar>CONFIGURE_ENV</makevar> to <literal>LD=${CC}</literal>.</para>
+  </note>
       </sect1>
 
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