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

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:08:29PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Albert Chin wrote:
> > >
> > > Attached is a patch for libtool, which solves this issue for the options
> > > -pthread, -pthreads, -threads, -mt, -mthreads and -Kthread.
> >
> > Too much duplicate code. Just use one case statement for it all.
> >
> > BTW, should libtool just pass through options it doesn't recognize?
> 
> Libtool does pass through options it doesn't recognize.
> Unfortunately, while unrecognized options are always passed to the
> compiler in the compile step, options do not reliably get passed in
> the link step when the compiler is also used to perform the link.

Is this intentional or a bug? If the latter, I say reject the patch in
lieu of a bug fix.

> CVS libtool already passes through any GCC -mfoo options to the
> link step when the compiler is invoked to do the linking.

Yeah, I need to think about this.

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albert chin (address@hidden)