Re: [PATCH nfs-utils] configure: use pkg-config to find libtirpc

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Hello,

On 11/23/2014 10:09 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Currently, we use a custom function to find libtirpc's headers and
> libraries. This works fine for shared linking.
> 
> But for static linking, this forgets to link with -lpthread, which is
> required by libtirpc.
> 
> A recent patch was sent to libtirpc to add that missing -lpthread in its
> Libs.private section of its .pc file. Thus, pkg-config will soon be able
> to return the appropriate libraries.
> 
> So, use pkg-config to find libtirpc.
> 
> And for older libtirpc versions, there is no change in behaviour: we're
> still missing the -lpthread. But once libtirpc has been fixed, we'll
> automatically get that missing library for free! :-)
> 
> Remove the --with-libirpc flag as it is no longer needed: pkg-config
> will provide us with the -I and -L flags, now.
It turns out that using pkg-config break builds on legacy OSs which
is something I don't want to do. I think it's important to at least 
try to maintain legacy builds so I'm looking to revert this patch. 

So if I revert this patch, what will break in your world? 

steved.