Re: option -pthread in LDADD

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Nov 28, 2021, at 2:51 AM, Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Am 28.11.2021 um 11:34 schrieb Martin Husemann:
>> Shouldn't lint learn about -pthread?
>> 
>> It should be just a shortcut for something like:
>> 
>> 	-lpthread -D_REENTRANT=1 -D_PTHREADS=1
> 
> I think this knowledge doesn't belong in the source code of lint, I'd
> rather put it into share/mk/*.mk, just like CPPFLAGS are already
> translated in sys.mk.
> 
> If lint would know about -pthread, should it know about -std=... as
> well, or the various -Wl,... linker options? I'd rather keep all these
> details away from lint as they are compiler-specific.

Lint(1) should probably know about -std=, yes, and could alter its own checking behavior based on it.  -Wl,… for the most part doesn’t impact which libraries are pulled in, so lint(1) shouldn’t need to care about those.

-- thorpej