Re: libtool problem on FreeBSD 4.1 with -pthread

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Peter Ekberg wrote on Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 05:29:25PM CET:
> Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > 
> > If you put it in the .la in $inherited_linker_flags then all should
> > be well (I think).
> 
> Ok, thanks for the hint. I originally did the patch for the libtool 1.4
> series and wasn't aware of the new flag. Here's a revised patch.
> 
> Changelog entry as before...
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> 2004-11-06  Peter Ekberg  <spam.protected>
> 
>       * config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): forward thread
>       related flags to dependent applications and libraries.

I think we should take it, even if:

- On AIX, users will still have to set their compiler.
- For different compilers on the same system, different flags might be
necessary.  Thus, if you compile the library with a different
compiler than the one you compile the program with, it might break.
Note that it might not work anyway, so maybe it's not useful to worry
about this too much.  (If it turns out to be an issue, let libtool
resolve it by storing a compiler-independent flag there and substituting
it for the cmdline;  e.g. -thread-safe).
- Other than the second point, this approach is orthogonal to finding
out the value of thread_safe_flag_spec.

What do the others think?  I don't want to have the last word here.

Regards,
Ralf