[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix pthread related link error for virt-aa-helper

Matthias Bolte matthias.bolte at googlemail.com
Fri May 7 18:04:50 UTC 2010


2010/5/7 Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net>:
> Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> 2010/5/7 Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net>:
>>> Matthias Bolte wrote:
>>>> Link virt-aa-helper explicitly with pthread. This is at least
>>>> required on Ubuntu 10.04.
>>>
>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>
>>> If the link failure was due solely to virt-aa-helper's use of
>>> the util library, then this patch may have solved that problem
>>> at the source:
>>>
>>>    avoid link error in tests using libvirt_util; due to pthread_sigmask
>>>    http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=0e9b3a269be9ce8
>>>
>>> If so, please revert this patch.
>>
>> I noticed this problem after updating to current git head with your
>> patch already included, so my patch is necessary.
>
> Merely changing library options in the src/Makefile.am does not
> cause all libraries to be recreated, so it is likely that you are
> still using a util library created without -lpthread, and thus
> you would not have seen any benefit to my patch.
>
> You can confirm that it is not required by running e.g.,
>
>  touch src/util/util.c && make
>
> without your patch.
>

You're right, I didn't recompile it properly after pulling in your patch :(

Sorry for that, I'll revert my patch, as it's not necessary.

Matthias




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