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Re: other/8888: Linking shared libraries with -pthread fails to linkto libpthread
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi at ira dot uka dot de>, <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:39:30 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: other/8888: Linking shared libraries with -pthread fails to linkto libpthread
> > So I'm inclined to close the report. Is this sensible, Joseph?
>
> No, since I believe the intention is that it *is* intended to be supported
> on other systems, but is missing documentation. (And some systems may
> inconsistently use the spelling -pthreads, a generic option (with docs
> moved to a generic section and a note that this option is only supported
> on some targets) should have a fixed spelling (or remap one to the other
> so both work on all systems).)
OK, thanks for the clarification. I remember that it is a hassle that this
flag is called differently on all different platforms. There might be some
value in keeping this report as a reminder that this should eventually be
fixed.
Thanks for your feedback
Wolfgang
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