Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD -pthread fix

[Peter O'Gorman]

Cezary Kaliszyk wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In OpenBSD (3.3) in many .la files the string dependency_libs
> includes -pthread. Current libtool fails (during link) with:
>
> link: cannot find the library `'
> --- ltmain.in.orig      Sat Sep 20 16:47:09 2003
> +++ ltmain.in   Sat Sep 20 16:47:34 2003
> @@ -1781,6 +1781,10 @@
>           deplibs="$deplib $deplibs"
>           continue
>           ;;
> +        -pthread)
> +         deplibs="$deplib $deplibs"
> +         continue
> +         ;;

Hi,
I think this needs a little more discussion. Older versions of libtool 
put all kinds of things into dependency_libs, although we could add 
individual flags like this to accept them, I don't believe it is 
appropriate.

So the question is:
Should we just ignore unknown stuff in dependency_libs (perhaps issue a 
warning), or just take the flags and pass them through to the linker, 
assuming they are okay?

Thanks,
Peter