Re: linking a shared library with -pthread omits -pthread on the link line.

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:49:01PM +0100, Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:
> 
> libtool --mode=link gcc  -o libtest.la -rpath /usr/lib test.lo -pthread
> 
> the following link line is generated:
> 
> gcc -shared  test.lo   -Wl,-soname -Wl,libtest.so.0 -o \
>   .libs/libtest.so.0.0.0
> 
> instead of
> 
> gcc -shared  test.lo   -Wl,-soname -Wl,libtest.so.0 -o \
>   .libs/libtest.so.0.0.0 -posix
> 
> Please have a look at the GLib bug    
>       
>       http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100697 
> 
> as to why we need that.
> 
> ...
>
> Attached is a patch for libtool, which solves this issue for the options
> -pthread, -pthreads, -threads, -mt, -mthreads and -Kthread.

Too much duplicate code. Just use one case statement for it all.

BTW, should libtool just pass through options it doesn't recognize?

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)