libgthread not linked with threads lib ???

[Yuri Pankov]

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:11 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> It seems that I've encountered an application that depends on libgthread
> and does not depend on any library that would suck in libpthread (or
> other threads library) through its dependencies. That application
> immediately aborts with the following message:
> /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0: Undefined symbol "pthread_getschedparam"
> 
> It seems that this happens because libgthread references pthread symbols
> but does not have a dependency on a threading library:
> 
> $ ldd /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so
> /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so:
>         libintl.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6 (0x48172000)
>         libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x4817b000)
>         libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x48200000)
> 
> Not sure if this is something wrong with my environment or if this is a
> universal problem with glib2 port.
> 
> BTW, is there anyway to add shared library dependency to an exisiting
> shared library (post-linking) ? LD_PRELOAD=libpthread.so works for me,
> but fixing libgthread-2.0.so dependencies in-place would be better.
> 

I had the same question some time ago. Check this URL for more info:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2006-April/014118.html
So your application seems to use pkg-config incorrectly or not at all.


Yuri