[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]configure: libvmaf depends on pthreads

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2017-11-26 15:05 GMT+01:00 Nicolas George <george at nsup.org>:
> Carl Eugen Hoyos (2017-11-26):
>> The way I understand (Linux) dynamic libraries, one implies
>> the other.
>
> Yes, but not the other way around.
>
> If a library uses threads internally but provides an interface that can
> be used without threads, then it is not our problem.
>
> If a library does not use threads but our calls to the library require
> threads, then we must consider it a dependency.

In this case the library and our interface both depend on pthreads
but configure ignores this.

Carl Eugen