Re: any objections to adding -D_PTHREADS in mk/pthread.builtin.mk and pthread.buildlink.mk

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:40:44AM +0200, Richard PALO wrote:
> Certain pthreads based applications specifically check for _PTHREADS 
> being defined, such as boost on solaris in which absence of this 
> CPPFLAGS issues this type of message:

The compiler is supposed to define that when used with -pthread:

   gcc -pthread -dM -E - < /dev/null | fgrep _PTHREADS

and compare w/o -pthread. If your compiler doesn't do that, add it to a
OS/compiler specific section, as Obata suggested.

Martin