Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (842 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This is a dup of a post to the general discussion list (OS@xxxx), but
> though someone here might be better informed as to what's going
> into 11.0 ...
>
>
> In 10.3 and most linux builds I've run into so far, 'pthreads' is usually
> in a separate pthreads library.  Has this changed in 11.0?  Would
> they have been moved into some library included by default during a
> build & link (like glibc)?

There's no change in this area.

> Seems like that would be an odd change to make since outside tarballs
> that use pthreads would likely have a -lpthreads in the final link
> stage and if OS11 moves them, all those make files would require
> a different link line for OS11 (i.e. -- one that doesn't try to include
> what would be a non-existent pthreads library).
>
> The reason I'm asking is I'm looking at a make designed to run on
> OS11, and I'm getting link errors for the various pthread functions --
> all of the functions seem to be missing when the final program is
> being linked (and it doesn't have an explicit -lpthreads on the link
> line).

The missing -lpthreads is the problem, you really need it.

> Thus my wondering is it the case that pthreads are being moved into
> one of the standardly linked-with libraries (like glibc -- not requiring
> explicit naming on the command line), or does linking against against
> libpthreads happen automatically on the 'gcc' of the future (the one to
> be in OS11.0)?

I'm confused - you always had to add -lpthreads if you use the pthreads
library, nothing has changed,

Andreas
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