-pthread and shared libraries

Hasso Tepper hasso at estpak.ee
Wed Jul 23 03:26:10 PDT 2008


Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

But they are linked against libpthread in NetBSD? I don't have NetBSD 
system to play with at the moment, I just looked at boost-libs binary 
package.


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Hasso Tepper





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