[cairo] Recent pthread mutexes addition in cairo

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:07:32PM -0400, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> > Albert Chin wrote:
> > 
> >>We have access to a diverse set of systems so I tried to determine
> >>what platforms would require -lpthread because of the recent addition
> >>of the pthread_mutex_* functions for cache locking:
> > 
> > 
> > I don't see what the purpose of this is.  Simply add an
> > 
> >   AC_CHECK_LIB([pthread], [pthread_mutex_init], [LIBS="-lpthread"], [])
> > 
> > to configure.ac and everything should be taken care of.
> 
> Or more specifically this patch should do it.  If pthread.h isn't
> available then -lpthread isn't checked.  On my system this gives these
> results:
>
> in "configure":
> checking pthread.h usability... yes
> checking pthread.h presence... yes
> checking for pthread.h... yes
> checking for pthread_mutex_init in -lpthread... yes

No. You do *not* want -lpthread. You don't need it if the stubs in
libc are usable.

-- 
albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)