Question about librt in xine_artsplugin

[Andy Fawcett]

Hi,

While building the xine plugin for arts on FreeBSD, we notice that it's 
trying to include librt for some reason.

 From Makefile.am:

    libarts_xine_la_LIBADD = $(XINE_LIBS) $(LIB_X11) $(LIB_XEXT) \
          -lkmedia2_idl -lsoundserver_idl -lartsflow -lrt

My question is, what is librt, because we don't have it on FreeBSD, and 
removing '-lrt' from the Makefile.am apparently causes no problems?

Should this library be removed from the linking stage, because it seems 
superfluous to me? If it's needed on any platform, should it be detected in 
"configure", and only added by something like $(LIBRT) ?

Regards,

Andy


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