From c3a1d832b8f783308f038bf2b821359c87fedcaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Lortie Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:21:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] README: Add note about gobject->gthread situation --- README.in | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.in b/README.in index fef70f4..8ae830b 100644 --- a/README.in +++ b/README.in @@ -50,6 +50,19 @@ Notes about GLib 2.32 * The -uninstalled variants of the pkg-config files have been dropped. +* For a long time, gobject-2.0.pc mistakenly declared a public + dependency on gthread-2.0.pc (when the dependency should have been + private). This means that programs got away with calling + g_thread_init() without explicitly listing gthread-2.0.pc among their + dependencies. + + gthread has now been removed as a gobject dependency, which will cause + such programs to break. + + The fix for this problem is either to declare an explicit dependency + on gthread-2.0.pc (if you care about compatibility with older GLib + versions) or to stop calling g_thread_init(). + Notes about GLib 2.30 ===================== -- 2.7.4