Bug 1617

Summary:	[PENDING] bug in glib's check for pthread_cond_timedwait
Product:	pkg-config	Reporter:	Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner>
Component:	src	Assignee:	Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	patch to fix glib bug-70525 in glib-1.2.8

Description Michael Haubenwallner 2004-10-13 02:31:15 UTC

In the glib-1.2.8 used by pkg-config there's a problem with the configure-check
for a posix-like pthread_cond_timedwait(), which is fixed in glib2 only.
See http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70525 for the whole description.

Don't know how to handle this cleanly, maybe use a glib2, but i've created
a patch to fix this in the glib-1.2.8 shipped within pkgconfig.

Comment 1 Michael Haubenwallner 2004-10-13 02:32:14 UTC

Created attachment 1094 [details] [review]
patch to fix glib bug-70525 in glib-1.2.8

Comment 2 Tollef Fog Heen 2005-02-21 00:16:07 UTC

Why is this needed, given that glib is configured with --disable-threads?

Comment 3 Michael Haubenwallner 2005-02-21 00:59:23 UTC

Well, if a system-admin of an HP-UX 11.2x (Itanium) tries to install pkgconfig,
why should he decide to "--disable-threads" ?
He knows that this system _has_ threads, and he might not know that pkgconfig
would run without threads. He's just bothered that configure would hang.

So if you don't want to patch third-party code, then please add --disable-threads
for the glib-1.2.8/configure-call in your configure.in instead (generally or for
this platform only), or update to a newer glib (which has to be a glib-2 to get
this fixed).

Comment 4 Tollef Fog Heen 2005-03-18 00:05:00 UTC

Fixed in CVS.

Comment 5 Tollef Fog Heen 2005-03-28 08:08:11 UTC

pkgconfig 0.16 has been released and contains a fix for this bug.

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