[arch-general] [Request] Remove libpthread-stubs from packages svn/trunk

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On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 06:11:40PM +0100, Xavier wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > Am 08.01.2010 17:24, schrieb arch at nezmer.info:
> >> Can someone remove libpthread-stubs from packages svn/trunk?
> >> The package obviously was removed from the repos a long time ago
> >> and tools like pbget would fetch an outdated PKGBUILD.
> >
> > While you may be right, such tools must be able to handle packages in
> > trunk that are not in any repo: It might happen that packages are being
> > removed from the repos but kept in trunk for some reason (maybe to be
> > readded later, maybe for some other reason). Other packages might be in
> > trunk because they will be used in the future, but have not yet been added.
> >
> >
> 
> Why doesn't Arch ship that package ? It's a single 6 lines file, it
> cannot hurt anything.
> I just realized arch patches libdrm to not require it :
> http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/libdrm/repos/extra-i686/no-pthread-stubs.patch
> But official libdrm still requires it, and that's also what we get if
> we just clone libdrm git repo (usually needed if you also build git
> versions of ddx and mesa).
> 
> I just asked on #dri-devel about it :
> 18:01 < shining> whats the deal with pthread-stubs ? libdrm requires
> it (apparently with
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/commit/?id=6df7b0719fe92b718e486c2b87e2f883cfa41efa
> ) but arch kills it
> 
> (http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/libdrm/repos/extra-i686/no-pthread-stubs.patch).
> do all distrib do that ?
> 18:03 < pq> shining, it is for non-threaded applications, so that the
> library does not call into the real pthread library but gets the no-op
>             stubs instead. It is implemented by glibc, so the stubs
> package is "empty" in that case.
> 18:04 < shining> pq: is it possible to require it only when glibc is
> not available/used ?
> 18:05 < pq> shining, the pthread-stubs package itself handles that.
> That's why it exists.
> 18:05 < jcristau> shining: what's the point?  what's required is a
> single .pc file at build time in that case
> 18:06 < pq> in a glibc system it really installs only a single .pc file, AFAIK
> 18:07 < shining> jcristau: I guess I will forward that question to
> arch if its the only distrib doing that :)
> 
> if no one has a good answer to jcristau question, I will open a bug report.
I only need it for libdrm-git. Actually , It's only a dependency of
libdrm packages in AUR:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20785