[cmake-developers] Checking for -pthread before -lpthread{s} in FindThreads.cmake

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Sonntag 17 April 2011, 03:23:39 schrieb Raphael Kubo da Costa:
> Hello there,
> 
> I see that currently FindThreads.cmake checks for -lpthreads, -lpthread
> and -lthread before trying to compile code with -pthread.
> 
> FreeBSD explicitly recommends using -pthread [1], and I guess the same
> holds for at least gcc-based systems, where -pthread usually translates
> into automatically passing -lpthread and any necessary definitions to
> the compiler and the linker.
> 
> Is the current order of the checks intentional, or would a patch
> changing the checks be accepted? Depending on the patch implementation,
> this would probably fix CMake bug #7830 as a side-effect.

I think 7830 is another incarnation of what I submitted as bug 11333. And 
there is even a patch in my bug.

Eike