ports/71635: Gnome recompile fails due to glib link errors

[Joe Kelsey]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 12:06, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> Thanks, I just added the -pthread to my ORBit2 make file as well.  My
> portupgrade of Galeon2 kept failing, because of the ORBit2 couldn't find
> the pthread functions.  I wonder if this is a 5.* & 4.* issue.  I am on
> 4.9, if you look in the config.log it finds -pthread, it just doesn't
> linked in.  The ORBIT_LIBS var definitely has -pthread in it.  Not sure
> why -pthread is not linked in???
> 
> On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 14:40, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > The following reply was made to PR ports/71635; it has been noted by GNATS.
> > 
> > From: Joe Kelsey <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us>
> > To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
> > Cc:  
> > Subject: Re: ports/71635: Gnome recompile fails due to glib link errors
> > Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:39:22 -0700
> > 
> >  I have solved this problem in a very unsatisfactory way.  The problem
> >  has occurred so far in three ports: ORBit2, libgnome, and gstreamer.  I
> >  solved the problem the same way in all of them, I edited the port
> >  Makefile and modified the setting of LDFLAGS in CONFIGURE_ARGS to add
> >  -pthread.
> >  
> >  Why do these ports get built without -pthread?  What happened here?

Finally! Someone else who experienced this nasty bug!

I suspect that some 5.x user last edited the port Makefile and set
LDFLAGS to a bad and completely clueless value.  I do not think that one
needs to set LDFLAGS ever, but apparantly this has been done wholesale
in Gnome ports Makefiles.

/Joe