# Upgrade to 1.1 help

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/upgrade-to-1-1-help/2770>\
**Category:** SDL Development\
**Created:** [July 4, 2000, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/upgrade-to-1-1-help/2770 "2000-07-04T11:27:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Emmett\_Tomai](https://discourse.libsdl.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@Emmett\_Tomai](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/Emmett_Tomai)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2000, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/upgrade-to-1-1-help/2770/3 "2000-07-05T12:31:14Z")

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Sam Lantinga wrote:

> > I config’d with --disable-joystick and --disable-threads  
> > (I haven’t even started trying to track that one down yet) and got sdl  
> > to compile, but linking to the library fails:
> 
> It sounds like a bug, I’ll check it out.
> 
> BTW, the problem with threads is fixed in CVS - SDL 1.1.3 didn’t work  
> by default on glibc-2.0 systems.

Thanks for the assist, Sam. Buoyed by your helpfulness, I tried again and  
discovered that my problem was with make, not the code. I did:

./configure; make

than said “Ooops, no joystick” and did:

./configure --disable-joystick; make

which _did not_ recompile any of the earlier files from the first run, thus  
the missing references. I don’t know enough about config/make to say if  
this is an accepted behavior, but it seems shaky since the difference in  
config flags does alter the compile flags.

At any rate, 1.1.4 from CVS, with a clean ./configure --disable-joystick  
–disable-pthreads, works just great. I guess the lack of pthreads is  
legit on a 2.0.36/glibc 2.0 system?

thanks again,

emmett

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