From: Ted Pavlic Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:57:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH (update)] make: By default, remove -pthread on Darwin (it is included by cstdlib). Message-ID: <497E079C.7090303@tedpavlic.com> In-Reply-To: <7vr62q6jtp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> ... >> This patch clears PTHREAD_LIBS by default. However, if >> FORCE_DARWIN_PTHREAD_LIBS is defined, then PTHREAD_LIBS will be set as >> before. > > Why is this even configurable? You explained pretty clearly that: ... > But the above leaves the reader wondering in what situation it may be > useful to use FORCE_* and for what purpose other than to get the nasty > warning back (which probably is not most users want to). I was afraid that there would be some strange situation where someone would have a configuration where they might want pthreads turned on. I suppose that if someone is in that specialized situation, they will be able to customize their build environment on their own. I will submit a new patch without the define. Thanks -- Ted -- Ted Pavlic Please visit my ALS association page: http://web.alsa.org/goto/tedpavlic My family appreciates your support in the fight to defeat ALS.