Re: Gnome and Multi-threading?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Use a different prefix, or don't install the head version at all (ie. run
it from the build directory -- if you use libtool to compile your test
programs, it can handle finding the correct libraries if you run the
program from the build directory.

James.

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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:14:47AM +0800,
> James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au> wrote:
> > This is more of a question for gnome-devel-list.  GTK aquires the lock    
> > when a signal handler is entered, but not io, idle and timeout callbacks.
> > So all the signal handlers in gnome are safe.  However, there are probably
> > a number of io, idle and timeout functions that should be aquiring the
> > lock themselves but are not.  This means that using the gnome libraries
> > from multiple threads is not guaranteed to work correctly all the time.
> 
> Okay, I volunteer to go through gnome-libs and make it thread-safe. I
> assume this will mean that I have to get the development version out
> from CVS. Does anyone have any advice on how to run October Gnome and
> the dev version concurrently, without any problems? My wife would not be
> happy if she were stuck using an unstable desktop...
> 
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