Am Samstag, den 24.10.2009, 22:51 -0500 schrieb Ardo van Rangelrooij: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Hi Ardo, > > > > Can you coment on this please? You've added the flags for expat in 2004, > > but maybe you remember for what? > > > > Regards, Daniel > > > > Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 15:05 +0200 schrieb Julien Cristau: > > > >> < ickle> jcristau: libfontconfig pulls in pthreads [debian] > >> * ickle starts recompiling the whole damn stack to lose the pthread > >> dependency, gah! > >> < pq> what's wrong with pthread? Or for distribution? > >> < ickle> just the excessive performance cost when running single-threaded > >> < ickle> jcristau: it appears that the debian package of expat links > >> against libpthread.so, but not when compiled from source... > >> < ickle> yay for uncommented changes: expat (1.95.8-1) unstable; > >> urgency=low > >> < ickle> * debian/rules: added '-pthread -D_REENTRANT' to 'CFLAGS' > >> < ickle> but no explanation :( > >> > >> Any chance you could remove this unnecessary -pthread from debian/rules? > >> Or is there a hidden non-obvious reason to keep it there (not that I can > >> see what that could possibly be)? > > Hello Daniel, > > This was added per request from Raphael Bossek: > > > Please consider to extend the compilerflags with -pthread -D_REENTRANT. > > This is required for my python-4suite package and all other > > multi-threaded applications.
But why? Expat doesn't use pthread nor _REENTRANT. IMO this switch just results in a useless linkage to libpthreads for the expat library in Debian. Raphael, can you please comment on this? Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
