Re: GDBus in gio? [was Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2009-11-10]

["Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew w nosenko gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 20:52, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:22 -0600, Stef Walter wrote:
>> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>> > 1. bug 600141 (desrt)
>> > - dbus-1 brings in pthread
>> > - gio-2.0 doesn't
>> > - dlopen()-ing a shared object linking to pthread from a library
>> >   that doesn't is a big no-no which kind of works in Linux but
>> >   breaks things like gdb
>> > - big hammer: make gio-2.0 depend on gthread-2.0
>> > - small hammer: make gio-2.0 pkg-config file include -pthread
>> > ACTION: desrt should involve gtk-devel-list and gather feedback
>>
>> Is there a reason the dbus stuff won't become its own glib module along
>> side gio, gobject, gthread etc...?
>
> Well, gio would still need to link to this so all gio apps still pull it
> in. Additionally there is a non-negligible overhead for each library
> linked into an app (due to elf linking rules), so the extra library is a
> performance loss for all applications.

Excuse me, but it is unclear about what you said: pthread or dbus?
I mean in the "Well, gio would still need to link to this so all gio
apps still pull it in" sentence.

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Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew w nosenko gmail com>