Re: GIO will link with -pthread soon

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 09:55 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:57 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > One issue with this change is that it sort of breaks the whole reason
> > for having libgthread in a separate library.
> 
> Ben has indicated that he thinks that by 3.0 threading should be
> non-optional in all glib applications on the premise that the small drop
> in performance is justified by all of the headaches going away.  I think
> he might be right.

All glib apps or all gtk+ apps?
There are a lot more stuff using glib than don't use things like gtk+ or
even gobject. I'm not sure these would like enforcing g_threads_init().

> >                                              Maybe we can link libgio to
> > libgthread instead? It won't make it disappear, but it will at least
> > make the thread lib status standardized across platforms.
> 
> I prefer linking to libpthread because it's the smaller hammer.  A small
> solution that directly targets the only symptom of the problem.  If we
> link to libgthread then I think we should also attempt to call
> g_thread_init(), which is sort of tricky (although we could do it from
> the extension-point initialisation stuff).

Oh, i didn't mean doing g_thread_init() magic, just doing the linking.