Re: libtool problem on FreeBSD 4.1 with -pthread

[Peter O'Gorman]

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).

Peter
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