Re: Portability and distribution with Gtk+ 1.3

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Arnaud Charlet <charlet ACT-Europe FR> writes:

> > I believe you can build without pthread, if you pass the right stuff
> > to glib configure.
> 
> The trouble is that I do not want to reconfigure/rebuild/reinstall glib
> each time I build a new application that has or doesn't have threads.
> 
> Unless I am missing something, with Gtk+ 1.2, as long as you do not
> use libgthread explicitely, you do not depend on libgthread not libpthread,
> even when glib has been configured with --enable-threads
> (the default I believe).
> 
> This is this change of behavior that I find annoying, but if it is
> an unwanted change, it might be possible to fix/revert this change.

There was no intentional change in this area. I think it's just
minor breakage in GTK+'s configure.in that happened when we switched
to pkg-config. Will investigate.

Regards,
                                        Owen