[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix pthread related link error for virt-aa-helper

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Fri May 7 16:29:55 UTC 2010


Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 10:07 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> Link virt-aa-helper explicitly with pthread. This is at least
>> required on Ubuntu 10.04.
...
>> -virt_aa_helper_LDFLAGS = $(WARN_CFLAGS)
>> +virt_aa_helper_LDFLAGS = $(WARN_CFLAGS) $(LIB_PTHREAD)
>
> ACK that adding a LIB_PTHREAD is the correct solution, but...
>
> Aargh; sorry for not noticing this sooner, but you copied a bug from
> Jim's patch, which in turn Jim copied from existing code.  According to
> automake, LDFLAGS is for -L and other flags that must come early in the
> command line, but LDADD is for -l and other flags that must come late in

Definitely worth fixing.

> the command line.  It doesn't quite matter on Linux, which has lazy
> linking if you specify -l too early, but it breaks compilation on cygwin
> if you get it in the wrong order.
>
> I'm working up a followup patch that moves LIB_PTHREAD (and other libs)
> out of LDFLAGS and into LDADD.

Thanks for cleaning up.




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