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

[Albert Chin]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 05:19:56PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Something is wrong here.  There is no assurance at all that libtool
> will be executed with the identical compiler and options as was used
> to configure libtool.
> 
> While assuming that the value of CC can be preserved may help some
> cases, it by no means a sure fix.
> 
> For example, I may configure libtool using CC='gcc' but later invoke
> libtool like
> 
>   libtool --mode=link gcc -m64 blah blah
> 
> or even
> 
>   libtool --mode link cc blah blah
> 
> where 'cc' is something other than the gcc used to configure libtool,
> or perhaps a different version of gcc.

So "libtool" is generic enough to handle any compiler thrown at it.
This is not true.

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albert chin (address@hidden)