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

[Pietro Cerutti]

Author: gahr (ports committer)
Date: Thu Feb 14 14:35:54 2013
New Revision: 40970
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40970

Log:
  - Modify the 12.11 Threading Libraries chapter to reflect the recent dismission
    of PTHREAD_CFLAGS and PTHREAD_LIBS
  
  Reviewed by:	eadler, bcr
  Approved by:	bcr

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml   (contents, props changed)

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml	Thu Feb 14 14:20:37 2013	(r40969)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml	Thu Feb 14 14:35:54 2013	(r40970)
@@ -787,8 +787,7 @@ PLIST_DIRS=	lib/X11/oneko</programlistin
 	variable value.  Example:</para>
 
       <programlisting>post-patch:
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|for Linux|for FreeBSD|g' ${WRKSRC}/README
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|-pthread|${PTHREAD_LIBS}|' ${WRKSRC}/configure</programlisting>
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|for Linux|for FreeBSD|g' ${WRKSRC}/README</programlisting>
 
       <para>Quite often, there is a situation when the software being
 	ported, especially if it is primarily developed on &windows;,
@@ -16171,25 +16170,18 @@ exec %%LOCALBASE%%/bin/java -jar %%DATAD
       <title>Threading Libraries</title>
 
       <para>The threading library must be linked to the binaries using
-	a special linker flag <literal>-pthread</literal> on &os;.  If
+	a special flag <literal>-pthread</literal> on &os;.  If
 	a port insists on linking <literal>-lpthread</literal>
-	directly, patch it to use
-	<makevar>PTHREAD_LIBS</makevar> variable provided by the ports
-	framework.  This variable usually has the value of
-	<literal>-pthread</literal>, but on certain architectures and
-	&os; versions it can have different values, so do not just
-	hardcode <literal>-pthread</literal> into patches and always
-	use <makevar>PTHREAD_LIBS</makevar>.</para>
+	directly, patch it to use <literal>-pthread</literal>.</para>
 
       <note>
 	<para>If building the port errors out with
-	  <literal>unrecognized option '-pthread'</literal> when
-	  setting <makevar>PTHREAD_LIBS</makevar>, it may be desirable
-	  to use <command>cc</command> as linker by setting
-	  <makevar>CONFIGURE_ENV</makevar> to
-	  <literal>LD=${CC}</literal>.  The
-	  <literal>-pthread</literal> option is not supported by
-	  <command>ld</command> directly.</para>
+	<literal>unrecognized option '-pthread'</literal>,
+	it may be desirable to use <command>cc</command> as linker by
+	setting <makevar>CONFIGURE_ENV</makevar> to
+	<literal>LD=${CC}</literal>.  The
+	<literal>-pthread</literal> option is not supported by
+	<command>ld</command> directly.</para>
       </note>
     </sect1>