Bug 42641

Summary:	configure script doesn't check if pthread-stubs package exists
Product:	cairomm	Reporter:	Janusz Korczak <janushk>
Component:	Build	Assignee:	Murray Cumming <murrayc>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	sivaranjani
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Janusz Korczak 2011-11-06 04:03:59 UTC

I had minor problem compiling cairomm. I am using Slackware distribution and forgot to install pthread-stubs package. Configure script silently created Makefiles but without proper include and linking paths. Problem is that when I manually executed pkg-config --cflags cairo I received complaints about missing pthread-stubs package but configure script didn't detect this. Probably detecting this during confuguration phase would solve problem..

Comment 1 Murray Cumming 2011-11-06 13:02:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Problem is that when I
> manually executed pkg-config --cflags cairo I received complaints about missing
> pthread-stubs package

That sounds like a Slackware cairo packaging problem that you should fix. I don't know Slackware, but I guess it should make sure that a package's dependencies are installed.

> but configure script didn't detect this. Probably
> detecting this during confuguration phase would solve problem.

In addition, this might be a pkg-config bug that you might report, though I am sure that I have seen errors from PKG_CHECK_MODULES() in the rare cases that a dependency does not have its own dependencies present.

So far I don't feel like adding special code to work around this in gtkmm upstream.

Comment 2 Murray Cumming 2014-01-28 12:19:57 UTC

Please reopen if this is still a problem that we should fix in cairomm. I'd also like to know if slackware fixed it in their packaging.

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