Re: xpdf

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Michael Banck a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 03:42:02AM +0000, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Samuel Thibault, le Wed 02 Jan 2008 03:33:25 +0000, a écrit :
>>> Barry deFreese, le Tue 01 Jan 2008 22:00:01 -0500, a écrit :
>>>> xpdf seems to build OK if you add -lpthreads to LDFLAGS in 
>>>> xpdf/Makefile.in. (And thanks to Ben :-) )
>>> Erf, so again that problem with the pthread stubs that are missing from
>>> libc...  I was wondering: since we had to set _dl_dynamic_weak to 1; in
>>> order to get the X11 stubs working properly anyway, maybe we could add
>>> to the debian glibc package a temporary patch that implements the few
>>> stubs, instead of erroneously asking packages to add -lpthread?
>> Note: of course that's not a proper fix, and it will break if we let
>> _dl_dynamic_weak go back to 0.  On the long run, we should have stubs in
>> libc that properly call pthread functions if needed.  But the thing is
>> we have an easy way to have things working the same way as on the long
>> run from the point of view of applications.
> 
> Well, at least for Debian, that sounds like a sensible thing to do for
> the meanwhile, unless one of the other glibc maintainers objects.
> 

You can make the patch Hurd specific by using the series.hurd-i386
patch. This way you are sure it won't break other architectures.


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