[Inkscape-devel] Re: configure error with -ldl and Boehm

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:36:54 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

See revision 1.11 of inkscape/inkscape/configure.ac: "When adding -lgc to LIBS, also add its dependencies -lpthread -ldl."

It sounds like libgc is built in a broken way, or this was for compatibility with ancient toolchains. Does anybody know why this change was made?

I'm interested because this kind of dependency tree fudging causes problems later (like this one).