libdrm-2.4.3 needs pthreads-stubs, not available for fedora, why?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:39:33 -0500, Gene wrote:

> On Friday 26 December 2008, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> >Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> libxcb-devel (and libxcb) are ancient and do not  contain the required
> >> headers.
> >
> >I don't know a thing about pthreads-stubs, but I had a dependency problem
> > many months ago that required pthreads. It turns out that in fedora, it is
> > called pth. Perhaps this helps?
> 
> Not sure, pth and pth-devel have been installed since forever.

GNU Pth is not what you're searching for. "pthread stubs" are related
to glibc's libpthread.

> Here is the error:
> checking for PTHREADSTUBS... configure: error: Package requirements 
> (pthread-stubs) were not met:
> 
> No package 'pthread-stubs' found

This is a pkgconfig error message.

> and there are no *stubs in the pth/pth-devel rpms.  Ack to google, the headers 
> are supposedly in the libxcb tarball, but the libxcb rpm available for even 
> F11, is many, many versions too old and doesn't contain the headers needed.
> 
> Thanks, yell if any more ideas surface.

$ repoquery --whatprovides /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pthread-stubs.pc
libxcb-devel-0:1.1.91-5.fc10.i386
libxcb-devel-0:1.1.91-5.fc10.i386