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Re: pthreads and the pkgsrc build environment




Am 26.11.2012 21:09 schrieb "Greg Troxel" <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>:
>   I think it's a bug that within pkgsrc, 'cc -pthread' succeeds when
>   (the wrapper) is executed during a build of a package that has not
>   declared a dependency on pthreads.  Rather than working, the call
>   should error out, just as linking a library that is not bl3'd in to
>   the package will fail.
>
> Opinions?

I am against this, as it would lead to a lot of churn for no good reason. Probably more than half of pkgsrc would likely break with such a change.

I would rather see the pkcs11-helper package fixed instead.

--Benny.



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