svn commit: r40970 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook

[Eitan Adler]

On 14 February 2013 09:41, Alex Dupre <ale at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Pietro Cerutti ha scritto:
>>       If a port insists on linking <literal>-lpthread</literal>
>> +     directly, patch it to use <literal>-pthread</literal>.</para>
>
> Why bother?

Because a program that uses pthreads *must* use -pthread to both
compile and link and not use -lpthread.  That it happens to work is an
implementation detail not be relied upon.



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