Re: Bogus pthreads dependencies for GCC?

On 7/18/2017 12:34 PM, Keith Marshall via MinGW-dvlpr wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm trying to tidy up the mingw-get package specifications for GCC-4+.
> Throughout the XML "requires" specifications for the "gcc-core" package,
> (specifically for its "bin" component), I'm seeing references to the
> development headers and libraries for pthreads-win32.  Why?  I can
> understand why each "libgomp-dll" component package release must specify
> dependencies for the specific pthreads-win32 DLL, against which it may
> have been linked, but why on earth are the associated pthreads-win32
> development headers and static libraries required to run GCC?
> 
> Am I missing something?

It's been so long since I've even used it to comment.  I'm thinking
maybe C++ drags them in but that is just a frog's hair chance of
possibility.

-- 
Earnie

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