Re: pkg-config 0.13

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Ali Akcaagac wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 05:25, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>  
>
> > 	Thanks :-) I've fixed the ORBit2 issue and updated
> > vicious-build-scripts. Everything else seems to be building for me so
> > far ..
> >    
>
> hmmmm make failed for module: libbonobo investigating into the
> gthreads.pc file
>
> bash-2.05b$ cat gthread-2.0.pc
> prefix=/tmp/gnome-test
> exec_prefix=${prefix}
> libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
> includedir=${prefix}/include
>
> Name: GThread
> Description: Thread support for GLib
> Requires: glib-2.0
> Version: 2.1.0
> Libs: -L${libdir} -lgthread-2.0 -pthread
> Cflags: -pthread
> bash-2.05b$
>
> i thought it should be changed to -lpthread ? or am i missing something
> here ? gnome-2-0 shows:
>  
The "-pthread" bit is correct.  The "-pthread" argument tells the 
compiler/linker to compile a threaded program.  On Linux, this is 
roughly equivalent to definining _REENTRANT and linking with -lpthread, 
but this is not so on every architecture.

Rather than trying to work out what flags to define on each 
architecture, it is easier to just get the compiler/linker to do it 
(which they can already do).  The problem was that pkg-config < 0.13 
didn't pass the -pthread argument through for "pkg-config --libs" in all 
cases.

James.

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