From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15039 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2002 19:46:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 14988 invoked by uid 71); 10 Dec 2002 19:46:05 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20021210194605.14986.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Wolfgang Bangerth Subject: Re: other/8888: Linking shared libraries with -pthread fails to link to libpthread Reply-To: Wolfgang Bangerth X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00574.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR other/8888; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wolfgang Bangerth To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Sebastian Wilhelmi , , Subject: Re: other/8888: Linking shared libraries with -pthread fails to link to libpthread Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:39:30 -0600 (CST) > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Bangerth email: bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu www: http://www.ticam.utexas.edu/~bangerth