On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 07:58:43AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/03/2010 04:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 03:53:12PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > >> On Fedora 13 with sufficient mingw32-* packages installed, running > >> ./autobuild.sh failed to cross-compile to mingw because > >> mingw32-pthreads installed a broken <pthread.h>. With that > >> issue fixed, the build still failed due to use of O_SYNC. > > > > Indeed you shouldn't install mingw32-pthreads - it horribly > > pollutes the global namespace & libvirt doesn't want it - we > > use Win32 native threads > > That would be nice, if yum didn't also insist upon removing everything > else mingw related: > > Removing: > mingw32-pthreads noarch 2.8.0-10.fc13 @fedora > 936 k > Removing for dependencies: > mingw32-gcc x86_64 4.4.2-2.fc13 @fedora > 3.1 M > mingw32-gcc-c++ x86_64 4.4.2-2.fc13 @fedora > 24 M > mingw32-gettext noarch 0.17-12.fc12 @fedora > 20 M > mingw32-glib2 noarch 2.23.4-1.fc13 @fedora > 7.6 M > mingw32-glibmm24 noarch 2.23.2-1.fc13 @fedora > 6.4 M > mingw32-gnutls noarch 2.6.4-3.fc13 @fedora > 2.4 M > mingw32-libsigc++20 noarch 2.2.4.2-1.fc12 @fedora > 1.7 M > mingw32-libxml++ noarch 2.26.0-3.fc12 @fedora > 1.2 M > > What's weird is that I don't recall having mingw32-pthreads installed on > a 32-bit fedora 13; it must be something about the 64-bit x86_64 > packages that is mistakenly sucking in this less-than-stellar package. Hmm, that sounds like a packaging bug to me - pthreads certainly used to be optional :-( > So, is the libvirt patch worth installing, while we wait for the > eventual fix of dependencies to not force mingw32-pthreads on 64-bit users? How about changing configure.ac so that it defaults to looking for win32 threads on Win32, rather than trying pthreads Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list