Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: use glib in glib pkg-config check.

[Chris Johns]

On 4/02/2014 8:59 pm, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Linux there are more flags present in gthread-2.0.pc that are not
> present in glib-2.0.pc:
>
>    Name: GThread
>    Description: Thread support for GLib
>    Requires: glib-2.0
>    Version: 2.38.2
>    Libs: -L${libdir} -lgthread-2.0 -pthread
>    Cflags: -pthread
>
>
> The 'Requires: glib-2.0' line there means that when QEMU asking for
> flags for 'gthread-2.0', it will *also* get any flags listed in the
> 'glib-2.0.pc' file.

Ah yes this is correct. I will take a closer look. Thanks for this.

> > > What glib version are you seeing a problem with ?
> >
> > glib-2.39.3 on darwin 13.0.2 (Mavrick).
> >
> > > It seems we should
> > > really fix glib, since this will affect countless 1000's of apps using
> > > it, not try to workaround in all downstream apps.
> >
> > This is outside of my field of view; to me it still looks qemu specific.
>
> I don't believe so. What QEMU is currently doing is correct so I
> believe this is either a darwin specific glib bug or a flawed
> build of glib on darwin.

Yes I agree.

Chris