Re: gdk_threads_init? (was Re: IMPORTANT: a big problem with gnome 2)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> Mon Oct 22 08:51:02 2001  Owen Taylor  <otaylor redhat com>
> 
> 	* gdk/gdk.[ch] (gdk_threads_init) docs/Changes-2.0.txt: 
> 	Add a function, gdk_threads_init() that must be explicitely 
> 	called to enable the GDK thread mutex.
> 
> >From docs/Changes-2.0.txt:
> 
> * GDK is no longer put into threaded mode automatically when 
>   g_thread_init() has been called. In order to use the 
>   global GDK thread mutex with gdk_threads_enter() and 
>   gdk_threads_leave(), you must call gdk_threads_init() explicitely.

That's fine.

>   gdk_threads_init() calls g_thread_init() if it hasn't already
>   been called, so you can typically change your call to g_thread_init()
>   into a call to gdk_threads_init().

This isn't :-); libgdk doesn't link to libgthread, so you'll have to
call g_thread _init() and gdk_threads_init().

Mon Oct 22 10:12:08 2001  Owen Taylor  <otaylor redhat com>

	* gdk/gdk.c docs/Changes-2.0.txt (gdk_threads_init): Don't call
	g_thread_init(), we don't want to link to -lgthread if we don't
	have to.