On 2 Jun 2008, at 15:43, David Chisnall wrote:
Hi,
It seems that recent GNUstep does not supply the -lpthread flag to
the linker, just -pthread. The semantics of -pthread are really
badly defined - on some platforms it does nothing, on some it sets
some macros, on some it implies -lpthread, on others it does not.
I thought gnustep-make supplied -lpthread on platforms where it was
needed.
The problem I am encountering is that libobjc and foundation both
depend on pthread symbols, but are not being linked against the
pthread library.
I'm guessing that this is a platform specific problem ... on my
machine (64 bit intel debian) base links with -lpthread
Is it possible to modify the configure script for gnustep-base so
that it will link directly against libpthread? Otherwise we end up
with apps that make no direct use of threads failing to build
because they have an indirect dependency.
I'm sure we could modify the base configure script, but I think
gnustep-make is (and should be) dealing with this already.
Can you find out why it's not being used on your system?