Re: Patch to get gnome-vfs building against HEAD

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:49:51PM -0500, Peter Williams wrote:
> > 
> > A while ago glib moved from "-lpthread" to "-pthread", which I guess is
> > a valid flag to both the compiler and linker that means "do the right
> > thing to give me pthreads". So theoretically it's better, but pkg-config
> > doesn't propagate it right, although I thought that was fixed a while
> > ago.
> > 
> 
> pkg-config was fixed long ago. This is something else. Owen knows what
> it is and already investigated, there's a glib bug in bugzilla about
> it.

Well, I sort of know what it is. The problem is:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100697

And is a consequence of libtool not understanding -pthread and 
GCC not always linking in -pthread when building shared libraries
using -pthread.

I have *no* idea why it just started breaking things for people
a day or two ago; the change has been in GLib for quite some time.

Regards,
                                        Owen