Re: gtk+ doesn't work with pthreads (the real solution)

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 02:09:00 +0200, gtk-app-devel-list@redhat.com (Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Koloska) wrote:
> Am Mon, 31 Mai 1999 schrieb Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Koloska:
> Today I have downloaded a package with threadsafe Xlibs and installed it in a
> separate directory.  Then I make a smal script that exports a new
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH with this directory and then exec's the requested binary.
> 
> Is it really necessary to use two versions of X11-libs?  Or can I safely
> replace my (non-threaded) X11 libs with the threadsafe ones?

No, a non-threaded application will work with a thread-safe library, so
you should install the thread safe libraries.

> And just to speed up my upgrade path to glibc2: Are there any (important)
> programms out there that will not compile with glibc2?  For now I shrink back
> from upgrading because it is not easy to make a system ready for compiling both
> libc5 and glibc2.

I had no special problems upgrading my applications to glibc2. To be sure,
I installed the backward compatible libraries and compilers on my Debian
2.0 box, but never needed them, so I removed them when I upgraded to
Debian 2.1. Find yourself an old PC, install a glibc2 based distribution
on it and try to compile your applications.


Erik

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