On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 06:11:40PM +0100, Xavier wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am 08.01.2010 17:24, schrieb arch@xxxxxxxxxxx: > >> Can someone remove libpthread-stubs from packages svn/trunk? > >> The package obviously was removed from the repos a long time ago > >> and tools like pbget would fetch an outdated PKGBUILD. > > > > While you may be right, such tools must be able to handle packages in > > trunk that are not in any repo: It might happen that packages are being > > removed from the repos but kept in trunk for some reason (maybe to be > > readded later, maybe for some other reason). Other packages might be in > > trunk because they will be used in the future, but have not yet been added. > > > > > > Why doesn't Arch ship that package ? It's a single 6 lines file, it > cannot hurt anything. > I just realized arch patches libdrm to not require it : > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/libdrm/repos/extra-i686/no-pthread-stubs.patch > But official libdrm still requires it, and that's also what we get if > we just clone libdrm git repo (usually needed if you also build git > versions of ddx and mesa). > > I just asked on #dri-devel about it : > 18:01 < shining> whats the deal with pthread-stubs ? libdrm requires > it (apparently with > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/commit/?id=6df7b0719fe92b718e486c2b87e2f883cfa41efa > ) but arch kills it > > (http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/libdrm/repos/extra-i686/no-pthread-stubs.patch). > do all distrib do that ? > 18:03 < pq> shining, it is for non-threaded applications, so that the > library does not call into the real pthread library but gets the no-op > stubs instead. It is implemented by glibc, so the stubs > package is "empty" in that case. > 18:04 < shining> pq: is it possible to require it only when glibc is > not available/used ? > 18:05 < pq> shining, the pthread-stubs package itself handles that. > That's why it exists. > 18:05 < jcristau> shining: what's the point? what's required is a > single .pc file at build time in that case > 18:06 < pq> in a glibc system it really installs only a single .pc file, AFAIK > 18:07 < shining> jcristau: I guess I will forward that question to > arch if its the only distrib doing that :) > > if no one has a good answer to jcristau question, I will open a bug report. I only need it for libdrm-git. Actually , It's only a dependency of libdrm packages in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20785
