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libkse to libpthread switch on FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Re:BSD may be dying... by zangdesign · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They don't have a wide range of paint colors and picking up chicks with them can be hard - but they do what they are built for, and they do it very well.

    You mean staring at UFO's and conjugal relations with not-quite-second cousins?

    Sorry. Someone had to say it - might as well be me.

    More on point - if FreeBSD is dying - why is everyone so determined to point out that it is dying (which it isn't)? Wishful thinking?

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  2. Re:BSD may be dying... by Carnildo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    More on point - if FreeBSD is dying - why is everyone so determined to point out that it is dying (which it isn't)? Wishful thinking?

    I think that, these days, the "BSD is dying" posts are more a traditional thing to do on Slashdot than any sort of expression of fact or desire.

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  3. Re:BSD may be dying... by anthonyrcalgary · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Some Linux people like to think that it's just them, Windows, and the commercial Unixes.
    The trolls are probably a small number of people that have their own reasons that wouldn't make sense to us. As for the rest... I have a friend that thinks Linux will gradually force everything out because it's good enough at everything, rather than really good at any particular thing. He's not a zealot, but that's what he thinks. I think that's a common attitude.

    (many) Linux supporters see the OS world as a tripod: themselves, Windows, and commerical UNIXes. The BSDs occupy the same space as Linux. Using a license that allows work to be "stolen", competing with them for talent and mindshare. That's not a comfortable position to be in. I mean, there are those that really get honestly angry over the BSD license.

    Frankly, the whole attitude that there should be one OS to do everything confuses me. Some goals are mutually exclusive.
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