Re: [gtk-list] glib & threading

[Mario Motta <mmotta guest net>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
>  ./configure --disable-threads
> 
> will definitely work. Threads are not required for the
> operation of GTK+/GLib. The configure is supposed to fall
> back properly if it doesn't find threads, but apparently
> on Slackware boxes it does something like finds
> thread headers, but not thread libraries and dies
> with an error message.
> 
> > I use a slackware box with libc5.
> > This isn't a glibc thing I hope??
> 
> Well, sort of. Basically, if you want threading on Linux,
> you want glibc. glibc integrates so much better with
> LinuxThreads, that I wouldn't even consider trying to
> use threads with libc5.
> 
> That being said, people did have some success using libc5
> with LinuxThreads and even with older MIT (?) userland
> pthreads. And (in theory) it should be possible to
> get GLib and threads to work with one of these packages.
> 

I can confirm that gtk + 1.1.15 compile and works well with threads enabled also
using libc5.
Actually on my system slackware 3.5 i have libc.so.5.4.46 and
libpthread.so.0.7
Just i noticed a compilation error pending on a configure error that
disappeared removing config.cache file and replaying ./configure.

> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
regards.
/mario
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