On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Juli Mallett wrote:

> > This is expected behavior -- libpthread is currently disconnected from the
> > build.  I'd actually like to see it connected to the build, with an
> > appropriate "WARNING: DRAGONS INCLUDED" man page also hooked up to
> > discourage accidental use.  At least, assuming David Xu, Jon Mini, etc,
> > are ready for the resulting bug reports they'll get. 
> 
> No.  You really don't want to do this.  A lot of ports will see
> -lpthread and try to use it instead of letting gcc use its best
> judgement about what threads system to use (-pthread).  And in the
> current state, that means a _lot_ of broken stuff. 

I thought we discussed installing it as -lkse at one point to avoid that
scenario.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
[EMAIL PROTECTED]      Network Associates Laboratories



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