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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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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