Re: [gtk-list] ./configure fails on Slackware Linux

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:
> I tried yesterday to build glib-1.1.14, and today to build glib-1.1.15, in slackware 3.6 (2.0.35), but with slighly different
> results.
> 
> With 1.1.14, the problem was that it coudn't find libthread, whereas in 1.1.15, it couldn't find
> libpthread.
> 
> in /lib I have the following:
> 
> piu01/hoosd [hoosd] 512 > ls -l /lib/libpth*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        49492 Oct 24 23:09 /lib/libpthread-0.7.so
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Jan 22 06:12 /lib/libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-0.7.so
> 
> The problem seems to be that I don't have libpthread.a
> 
> Should I need the archive, or should the shared library be sufficient?

You are missing libpthread.so, it appears.

I am not sure if gcc has some magic to determine shared library names,
so try "cd /lib ; ln -s libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so" and then re-run
configure.

You can also do './configure --disable-threads' as a workaround.

IMHO Glib has a bug here -- we should fall back to disable-threads in
the absence of a threading library, not die with an error.

Thanks much for the informative bug report.

	Jeff