Re: libtool problem on FreeBSD 4.1 with -pthread

[Peter Ekberg]

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Peter Ekberg wrote:
> 
>> This patch (against branch-2-0) works for us<tm>.
>> 
>> 2004-11-05  Peter Ekberg  <spam.protected>
>> 
>>      * config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): forward thread
>>      related flags to dependent applications and libraries.
>> 
> 
> The problem here is that although libtool-2.0 and later and
> libtool-1.4.2 and earlier will take the -pthread happily,
> libtool-1.5.x (and I think 
> 1.4.3, but I am not sure) will barf and die if it sees -pthread in
> dependency_libs. I think it will say "cannot find the library `'".
> 
> This means that if we add it to dependency_libs and you build your
> lib you may not be able to run ./configure && make on another package
> which uses your lib but whose developers are only reasonably
> up-to-date 
> with libtool
> and have 1.5.10.
> 
> If you put it in the .la in $inherited_linker_flags then all should
> be well (I think).

Ok, thanks for the hint. I originally did the patch for the libtool 1.4
series and wasn't aware of the new flag. Here's a revised patch.

Changelog entry as before...

Cheers,
Peter

2004-11-06  Peter Ekberg  <spam.protected>

        * config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): forward thread
        related flags to dependent applications and libraries.

freebsd-pthread2.patch
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