[PATCH, v3] Potential solution to librt issue.

Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org
Thu Jul 24 06:33:00 GMT 2008


> If I'm reading this right, libstdc++ now requires librt to link.

I'm afraid you are.

> First of all, I think this will g++ -static.  The compiler knows about
> the previous libm dependency, but not the new librt dependency.

Ok, this is a minor problem.

> Second of all, linking in librt on Linux also requires libpthread;
> this is going to make all C++ programs link in libpthread, which
> activates locking in glibc (a major overhead for single-threaded
> programs).

But this is not.  It might even be a no-no for using clock_gettime 
AFAICT.  Where is the pointer to the "librt issue"?  I didn't find it in 
the libstdc++ archives.

Paolo



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