Re: problem with balsa from cygwin-ports

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2011.09.09 20:05, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Jack!
>
> On 09/09/2011 03:35:20 PM Fri, Jack wrote:
> > Sorry for cross posting, but I'm relly not sure if this is an  
> > underlying balsa issue, a cygwin-ports specific issue, or just  
> > something in my configuration.
> >
> > I'm using balsa 2.4.10 from cygwin-ports under Windows Vista Home  
> > Basic.  Overall, it seems to be working just fine, and I finally got  
> > both receiving and sending (via yahoo mail) working.  However, I can  
> > only receive mail once.  If I try a second time, the console says  
> > "Already Checking Mail."
> >
> > Is there any debugging I can do?  I had previously tried compiling  
> > my own version of balsa with the cygwin toolchain, and was getting  
> > some strange errors - however, I also got them with the packaged  
> > version and got rid of them with a rebaseall.  I just have not yet  
> > tried compiling again since then.
>
> Oops--my bad!
>
> Balsa has been using a POSIX mutex in a way that has undefined  
> results.  Seems that on Linux it's sane, but that's not guaranteed,  
> and apparently it's different on Windows.  The master and gtk3  
> branches of git have been fixed, and the attached patch should apply  
> to the 2.4.10 tree (but I can't be sure!).
Yes, that works!  I'll try to forward it to the cygwin list.  I think  
my first message to them didn't get through since I subscribed from a  
different address.

Thanks.

Jack