other/8888: Linking shared libraries with -pthread fails to link to libpthread

[Joseph S. Myers]

The following reply was made to PR other/8888; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
Cc: Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>,  <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>, 
     <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: other/8888: Linking shared libraries with -pthread fails to link
 to libpthread
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:36:43 +0000 (GMT)

 On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
 
 > > This documentation is as an RS6000/PowerPC option only.  If it's intended 
 > > to be supported on other systems, it needs to be more generally 
 > > documented.
 > 
 > 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).)
 
 -- 
 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk