Re: Which threading lib is it?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :At some point, are we going to want to remove libc_r as part of the
> :upgrade process?  (I'm assuming that's going to force recompilation of
> :many 3rd-party apps).  I can imagine it can make troubleshooting more
> :difficult if we're going to have some people with libc_r and libthread_xu
> :and it won't have been a conscious decision in either case.
>
>     Well, we have libpthread.so which is what all recently compiled programs
>     should be linked against, so no new builds will ever be directly linked
>     to libc_r any more (or shouldn't be).  This means we can simply relink
>     libpthread.so to libthread_xu (i.e. have 'make upgrade' do that),
>     declare libc_r deprecated, and stop building and installing it.
>
>     Doing that now, in HEAD, might be a good idea.

I don't see any benefit in removing libc_r.  Maybe somebody wants to use 
it for certain things.  I'd just keep it around.

cheers
  simon

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