libkse to libpthread switch on FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 2, 2004 @04:40AM from the moving-forward dept.

Dan writes "Daniel Eischen says that libkse has been renamed back to libpthread and is now the default threads library. The gcc-pthread option has also been changed to link to libpthread instead of libc_r. For alpha and sparc64 machines, libkse has not been renamed and links are installed so that libpthread points to libc_r. FreeBSD GNOME team's Joe Marcus Clarke confirmed that the ports system will switch to using libpthread as the default for PTHREAD_LIBS shortly. A patch set is currently being tested, once that completes, the necessary port hooks will be in place to easily build applications linked to libpthread."

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BSD may be dying... by Ianoo · 2004-02-02 04:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

... according to some, but I think it's rather useful. The old saying "Don't put your eggs in one basket" applies. (Friendly) Competition is good for open source software - witness KDE and Gnome's attempts to out-innovate eachother.

I don't think for one minute that SCO's claims about Linux are legitimate, but imagine if they were: and some idiot judge ordered that Linux distribution was stopped. I think all the BSD trolls might be glad of an alternative kernel and userland under those circumstances!