Issue 2828 and building against atomics.

[Matthew Schumacher]

On 11/15/19 11:50 AM, Alan DeKok wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2019, at 2:35 PM, Matthew Schumacher <matt.s at aptalaska.net> wrote:
>
>> If I revert the patch, it doesn't link against libatomic and thus I no longer have this dependency.  Alan suggested installing libatomic as the solution, and while I can make a package for that, I don't understand what I would be loosing by omitting -latomic from the linker and building without it.  Can someone explain why I shouldn't just revert the patch in my build script and eliminate this dependency?
>    If you revert the patch and it still works, go for it.
>
>    But many platforms require libatomic in order to do atomic operations.
>
>    Alan DeKok.

Okay, thanks for the info.

schu