Threading libraries

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sat, December 13, 2008 3:44 am, Hasso Tepper wrote:

> I don't think that it's acceptable in long term, so either someone jumps
> in to implement missing stuff in libc_r or we should remove libc_r at all
> (at least in sense of libpthread.so).
>
> Any thoughts?

My initial reaction is "yes, please, let's move", since libc_r is (as
understand it) not intended for the long term.

What would this mean for the 2.2 release?  Would people who had been
upgrading from pre-xu versions need to recompile everything, including
pkgsrc apps?