[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#551079: libexpat1: links with -lpthread for no reason

[Daniel Leidert]

Hi Ardo,

Can you coment on this please? You've added the flags for expat in 2004,
but maybe you remember for what?

Regards, Daniel

Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 15:05 +0200 schrieb Julien Cristau:

> < ickle> jcristau: libfontconfig pulls in pthreads [debian]
>  * ickle starts recompiling the whole damn stack to lose the pthread 
>     dependency, gah!
> < pq> what's wrong with pthread? Or for distribution?
> < ickle> just the excessive performance cost when running single-threaded
> < ickle> jcristau: it appears that the debian package of expat links 
>          against libpthread.so, but not when compiled from source...
> < ickle> yay for uncommented changes: expat (1.95.8-1) unstable; 
>          urgency=low
> < ickle>  * debian/rules: added '-pthread -D_REENTRANT' to 'CFLAGS'
> < ickle>  but no explanation :(
> 
> Any chance you could remove this unnecessary -pthread from debian/rules?
> Or is there a hidden non-obvious reason to keep it there (not that I can
> see what that could possibly be)?