Re: configure can't detect proper pthread flags

Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-03-20 03:14:48 +0300, Max Filippov wrote:
> > and the toolchain emits the following warning at linking step:
> >
> > libcrypto.so: warning: gethostbyname is obsolescent, use
> > getnameinfo() instead.
>
> FWIW, I think emitting such errors at link time is utterly pointless and
> rather annoying. I can see a point of emitting them them when compiling
> code that uses deprecated functions. But we quite obviously can't do
> much about openssl using gethostbyname.

We don't seem have much leverage with the guys producing the linker. If
we do, then surely our best bet is to get them to be quiet, or at least
provide an --yes-i-know-your-crap-is-noisy-please-shut-it-up option.

If we don't have leverage, and we really care enough about that platform
to want to work around this problem, it seems that the latest suggestion
of comparing the output of the linker with and without the option we're
testing (rather than just assuming that the output without the option
must surely be empty) is the safest bet ... It seems bad (fragile
hack), but let's see a patch and then we can judge.

Another option is to say "uclibc is broken beyond belief" and consider
it unsupported.

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