Re: Bogus pthreads dependencies for GCC?

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On 18/07/17 20:13, Earnie via MinGW-dvlpr wrote:
> On 7/18/2017 12:34 PM, Keith Marshall via MinGW-dvlpr wrote:
>> 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.

That could be plausible, if we specified "--enable-threads=posix" when 
building the compiler.  We don't normally do that -- my GCC-5.3.0-2 is 
an experimental exception; does anyone know of any other of our builds 
using a thread model which is not "win32"?

More likely, the libgomp-1.dll build-time dependency on pthreads has 
been mistakenly propagated as a GCC run-time dependency, which I don't 
believe it to be unless the user's own source is pthreads dependent.  
Surely, in the latter case, the onus should be on the user to satisfy 
the dependency, in a manner which is compatible with the pthreads 
implementation he (or she) chooses to adopt?

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Regards,
Keith.

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