-pthread and shared libraries

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Jul 23 03:10:37 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:25:48AM +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> What's the reason for that? Is it a historic and could be removed now to 
> avoid confusion?

Thread-aware libraries should not be linked against libpthread as it
forces the full pthread overhead everywhere.

Joerg





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