Subject: Re: perl, p5-SDL and libpthread
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/30/2003 11:59:02
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:05:23PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > That worked.  Is that the right solution?  Or, is "link libpthread at link time
> > into everything that might dlopen it at runtime" just the best answer we have
> > right now?
> 
> See pkg/21210 and
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2003/02/28/0001.html
	ah, thanks.  I thought this was mentioned before.
So, I suppose the question now is: what's the status of this.  From Nathan's
email to current-users:
>The right thing here is for libc to export its thread-operation
>stubs as pthread functions, and then to make SDL-image and similar
>libraries not link directly against libpthread,
	The second part is clearly not done.  Has the first been?  If not,
what exactly needs to be stubbed out?

eric