Re: glib bug(?)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

> Szabo, Balazs wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I  downloaded  the glib  from  the  cvs, and  I  got  a message  in  the
> > configure:
> > 
> > [...]
> > checking for preceeding underscore in symbols... no
> > checking for dlerror... yes
> > checking for pthread_cond_init in -lpthread... no
> > checking for pthread_attr_init in -lpthreads... no
> > checking for PRP_NewNakedCondVar in -lnspr21... no
> > checking  for thread  implementation... configure:  warning: You  do not
> > have any known  thread system on your computer. glib will  not be thread
> > safe on your computer. none
> > checking necessary linker options...
> > updating cache ./config.cache
> > creating ./config.status
> > creating Makefile
> > [...]
> > 
> > I  have glibc2  isntalled,  why  I need  pthreads?  I  knew that  glibc2
> > contains threading support, isn't it?
> 
> This is a warning message you can ignore.
> 
> GLib currently doesn't act like Gtk+ and discover your thread libraries,
> you have to tell it by hand.
> 
> glibc2 does indeed contain threading support, so you need to do
> 
> ./configure --with-threads=posix

GTK+ never discovered your thread libraries.
GLib is supposed to.

Do you have libpthread.so?
what does:
 
  nm /usr/lib/libpthread.so | grep pthread_cond_init

show?

Regards,
                                   Owen