Re: [gtk-list] Re: pbms on freebsd w/ threads

[Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel DotCom FR>]

As the well known Jeremy Lea said...
->Hi,
->
->On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 04:13:01PM +0200, Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:
->> I attach a patch, that should solve your problems. Please tell me the
->> necessary MACROS to test for (e.g. #ifdef FREEBSD... or even NETBSD?) to
->> enable that fix, beacuse we do not want to have it on platforms other than
->> those necessary. A general solution a la g_getc is IMHO not needed, as the
->> getc thing only poses problems to libraries for both MT and non-MT (currently
->> not so many, it seems) and as such should be taken care of by the libraries
->> themselfs.
->>  
->> > This solution fits all the architecture, and eliminates the
->> > freebsd problem. I'll post some diff in a few days (need some
->> > tests).
->
->Could you please detail this problem, because I'm not seeing any
->problems.  Are you linking the app correctly (with -pthread)?  Glib's
->configure is broken for FreeBSD.  I submitted patches but they seemed to
->be ignored.  See patch-ad in the devel/glib12 port.

	I link the program correctly (I saw the missing -pthread too).

	The problem is : when you want to link a gtk app that does not
	use thread, you end up with a linker error (__isthread : symbol
	not found, or something like that). This is related to the use of
	the getc() macro.

	This causes really great disasters on some ./configure script
	around the world (gimp, imlib, gtk-engine, and so on), since
	the C program they use to test the gtk version is compiled
	with 'gtk-config --libs --cflags'. So, the program compiles
	well, but cannot be executed because of the ld.so error.
	Finnaly, those configure scripts fail. Since it is a Bad Idea
	to modify the [glib.m4] macros to handle this freebsd problem,
	it's better to turn those getc() into fgetc(). I have actually
	done this but (what I cannot understand) I have some very
	gtk strange errors when using the examples/. Gimp works,
	others don't...

	I will try your glib12 port soon.

	Yours,
->
-> -Jeremy
->
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