[racket-dev] up-to-date libgtk for drracket on debian stable?

At Mon, 3 Jan 2011 09:05:15 -0500, Philippe Meunier wrote:
> >> Just to make things more annoying, libcairo needs libpthread:
> >> [...]
> >> so I also had to change the define-runtime-lib macro from
> >> collects/racket/draw/private/libs.rkt so that the unix case of the
> >> macro accepts multiple libraries.  I'm not sure that's the best way to
> >> go about adding libpthread though, and I'm definitely not sure that my
> >> simple change to collects/racket/draw/unsafe/cairo.rkt to add
> >> libpthread works on other platforms...
> >
> >Won't "libpthread" get loaded auomatically when "libcairo" is loaded?
> 
> Apparently not:
> 
> $ ldd /usr/local/lib/libcairo.so.11.0 | grep pthread
>         0318a000 2318e000 rlib 0    11   0        
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.1.0
> $ 
> 
> So it looks like it has to be done explicitely.

That doesn't make any sense to me, but maybe it doesn't matter.

If you configure with `--enable-pthreads', does it fix the problem?
If so, we can make `--enable-pthreads' the default for OpenBSD.