glibc 2.34 and later doesn't have separate libpthread (libpthread.so.0 is a
dummy shared library with just some symbol versions for compatibility, but
all the pthread_* APIs are in libc.so.6).
So, we don't need to do the .weakref dances to check whether a program
has been linked with -lpthread or not, in dynamically linked apps those
will be always true anyway.
In -static linking, this fixes various issues people had when only linking
some parts of libpthread.a and getting weird crashes. A hack for that was
what e.g. some Fedora glibcs used, where libpthread.a was a library
containing just one giant *.o file which had all the normal libpthread.a
*.o files linked with -r together.
libstdc++-v3 actually does something like this already since r10-10928,
the following patch is meant to fix it even for libgfortran, libobjc and
whatever else uses gthr.h.
2024-04-25 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
* gthr.h (GTHREAD_USE_WEAK): Redefine to 0 for GLIBC 2.34 or later.