Linking executables on FreeBSD

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 19 October 2007, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 20:43, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just attempted to build a few KDE modules from KDE trunk on my FreeBSD
> > box and noticed that none of the executables (like, test programs) which
> > link against Qt worked on FreeBSD. This is because '-pthread' was missing
> > on the linker line (you use that instead of '-lpthread' on FreeBSD).
> >
> > I attached a patch which I applied to all FindQt4.cmake copies I could
> > find in my checkout and except for the copy which is in
> > kdesupport/qca/cmake/modules, it applied nicely and fixed the problem
> > (for qca, I needed a slightly different patch because the FindQt4.cmake
> > file is different).
> >
> > I don't dare to commit this though as I have not much of a clue how the
> > build system works. Does this patch look sane?
>
> If you look at FindQt4.cmake, you'll find the following two lines almost at
> the end of the file:
>
> FIND_PACKAGE(Threads)
> SET(QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY ${QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
>
> CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT should be set to "-pthread" in your case, this
> should be done by Modules/FindThreads.cmake coming with cmake. Please check
> which value CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT has on your system and try to figure out
> what FindThreads.cmake does on your box.

Any news ?

Alex