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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:26:15PM +1100, Chris Johns wrote:
> Building against with a recent glib in a custom prefix fails because
> the gthread cflags in the pkg-config file do not have the correct path
> while the glib pc file does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Johns <address@hidden>
> ---
>  configure | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index b472694..12f730f 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -2343,9 +2343,9 @@ if test "$mingw32" = yes; then
>  else
>      glib_req_ver=2.12
>  fi
> -if $pkg_config --atleast-version=$glib_req_ver gthread-2.0; then
> -    glib_cflags=`$pkg_config --cflags gthread-2.0`
> -    glib_libs=`$pkg_config --libs gthread-2.0`
> +if $pkg_config --atleast-version=$glib_req_ver glib-2.0; then
> +    glib_cflags=`$pkg_config --cflags glib-2.0`
> +    glib_libs=`$pkg_config --libs glib-2.0`
>      LIBS="$glib_libs $LIBS"
>      libs_qga="$glib_libs $libs_qga"
>  else

This change will cause  -pthread linker + compiler flag to be lost.


What glib version are you seeing a problem with ? 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.

Daniel
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