Building gtk-2.6.9: problem and solution

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:26:44AM +1000, lukem.freebsd at cse.unsw.edu.au wrote:
> I've been having trouble with portupgrade not succeeding with upgrading 
> gtk for a while, and this morning I figured out why. I noticed a lot of 
> people with similar compile issues when googling, so I figured one post 
> here might save others some time in the future.
> 
> The compile would fail with:
> cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -Wall -o timescale timescale.o 
> -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib ./.libs/libpixops.a -lglib-2.0 -liconv 
> -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lm -lintl
> /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
> `pthread_attr_destroy'
> 
> And similar for a bunch of pthread functions.
> 
> Listing the symbols in /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so using nm showed 
> that indeed, they were not defined.
> 
> Anyway, to cut a long story short, if you link with -pthread as well as 
> libgthread, things will build properly.
> 
> So, build with "make CFLAGS=-pthread" instead of just "make".
> 
> Perhaps a port maintainer would like to make this default behaviour, or 
> perhaps my libgthread should have been built differently.
> 
> I tried rebuilding glib-2.6.6 to make sure it wasn't the problem. 
> Interestingly my AMD-64 box which is also maintained with cvsup and 
> portupgrade did not encounter the same problem.

This sounds weird and should of course not be necessary..probably
something else is wrong, but I don't know what it might be.

Kris
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