[libvirt] [PATCH] build: fix some mingw issues
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jun 3 14:02:11 UTC 2010
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
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