Armin K. wrote: > On 01/03/2013 08:07 AM, Simon Geard wrote: >> >> A stupid package, that libpthread-stubs - on a Linux machine, it doesn't >> even install anything, except for the .pc file that tells X that it's >> installed. It's just there to make things compile if you happen to be >> running some obscure OS that doesn't support standard POSIX threads... >> almost worth just patching out of the one or two packages that need it. >> >> Simon. > > It seems that Archlinux completely removed that package, patching libxcb > and libdrm (only 2 packages that might need it) while Fedora patches > only libxcb and ships libpthread-stubs.pc with it. > > Which solution should we take? I'd really like to see libpthread-stubs > go away ...
Installing a null file, pthread-stubs.pc, seems like the wrong way to go. I'd prefer patching libdrm and libxcb. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
