Re: xpdf

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

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.


Michael