Re: Proposal: Enable threads by default

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
>
> Running with this patch i ran into an issue while building gnome-shell:
>
>  GEN    Gdm-1.0.gir
>
> GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.
> aborting...
> Command '['/gnome/src/gnome-shell/src/tmp-introspectpoWP_f/Gdm-1.0',
> '--introspect-dump=/gnome/src/gnome-shell/src/tmp-introspectpoWP_f/types.txt,/gnome/src/gnome-shell/src/tmp-introspectpoWP_f/dump.xml']' returned non-zero exit status -5
>
> Not sure exactly what crashed, but obviously something ran:
> g_type_init() and then g_thread_init(). Maybe we need to make this a
> non-fatal warning?

Nah, just a bug in the dumper.  Fixed:

commit ffd9b39620c9665a8685363202b4f02fa895288c
Author: Colin Walters <walters verbum org>
Date:   Wed Dec 2 12:56:52 2009 -0500

    [dumper] Fix threads initialization

    Correctly guard with g_thread_supported, call g_thread_init before
    g_type_init.