Re: failed building eclipse on powerpc
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 03:01 pm, Jan Schulz wrote:
> Now it compiles, but I get an error from ld:
> ld -o libswt-gnome-gtk-2133.so gnome.o -x \
> -shared `pkg-config --libs gnome-vfs-2.0`
> ld: unrecognized option '-pthread'
> ld: use the --help option for usage information
> make[1]: *** [libswt-gnome-gtk-2133.so] Error 1
>
> I've googled a bit, but haven't found anything. I will ask some
> questions in debian-mentor and on the swt ML and if I can't solve
> this problem in the next days, I will remove this lib (I actually
> have no idea, what this lib is for... IMO, SWT only consist of
> swt and swt-pi libs...)
>
> Does anybod yhave some ideas about this error?
The '-pthread' linker option is used on some platforms (OpenBSD AFAIK) to
trigger linkage of threading code. The Linux eqivalent is '-lpthread' -
usually simply changing it wherever it occurs is sufficient.
- Keegan
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