[PATCH] BZ #5784: Build libpthread.a with ld -r

[Andreas Schwab]

Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:

>       There is a further wrinkle here, the possibility of what might be
>       termed "dynamic static threadedness".  That is, a program linked
>       without -lpthread might use dlopen (or equivalent via NSS modules
>       or whatnot) to load libpthread.so (or another DSO that depends on
>       it), and then be able to create a thread.  The existing scheme
>       doesn't account for this possibility, and I am not aware of anyone
>       having complained, so perhaps nobody actually cares.

This case has always been rejected as unsupported, ie. if you ever
create threads you must link main against -lpthread.

Andreas.

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