In the patches/patch-* files of the ports tree, there's 609 lines with
"-pthread" (mostly additions) and 432 lines with "-lpthread" (mostly
removal). Some are just comments but most of the important patches are
typically in make files (of assorted GNU flavors) or configure scripts
(again of assorted GNU flavors).
$ cd /usr/ports
$ find . -type f -name patch\* -print0 | \
xargs -0 grep -E '^\+.*\-pthread|^\-.*\-lpthread' | \
wc -l
863
The number of lines of patches we'll need to maintain to deal with the
'-lpthread' versus '-pthread' conflict is only going to get worse over
time assuming more applications become multi-threaded.
Is there an acceptable way to avoid all the '-lpthread' to '-pthread'
patching?
Is it even worth fixing?
If so, where/how?
