Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2011-12-09 23:04:54 +0100: > On 10/12/11 07:29, Ionut Biru wrote: > > On 12/09/2011 09:25 PM, Philipp wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> I have linking issues with one of the programs I maintain in AUR and I > >> don't quite understand the issue. Here's the output: > >> > >> g++ -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu > >> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o jmeters jmeters.o styles.o mainwin.o jclient.o > >> mkimage.o meterwin.o -lsndfile -lclxclient -lclthreads -ljack -lpng > >> -lXft -lX11 -lrt > >> /usr/bin/ld: jmeters.o: undefined reference to symbol > >> 'pthread_mutex_trylock@@GLIBC_2.2.5' > >> /usr/bin/ld: note: 'pthread_mutex_trylock@@GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in > >> DSO /lib/libpthread.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line > >> /lib/libpthread.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation > >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > >> make: *** [jmeters] Error 1 > >> > >> The program is jmeters > >> (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25711). > >> > >> It depends on clthreads (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3627) > >> which handles the threading stuff. > >> > >> I wonder where this problem comes from. Needles to say that it worked > >> fine in the past. Any ideas? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Philipp > >> > > > > sounds like you don't have a fully up to date toolchain > > > > Actually, it sounds like he does have a fully up-to-date toolchain: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange > > The output also gives the fix... > >> /usr/bin/ld: note: 'pthread_mutex_trylock@@GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in > >> DSO /lib/libpthread.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line > > Allan Thanks, adding -lpthread helped in this case. I'm not looking forward to patching possibly all the other programs I maintain. Regards, Philipp