Re: GLIB and MinGW

[Earnie <earnie users sourceforge net>]

Dieter Verfaillie wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:26:23 -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> I've built version 2.29.92 with MinGW's gcc version 4.6.1 and
>> binutils version 2.21.53.20110804. I'm seeing a SIGSEGV error
>> caused from an infinite loop at line 732 of glib/gatomic.c (as seen
>> by the bt from gdb). The calling program dbus-glib-tool calls
>> g_type_init () and never returns. The relative bt is below. I'm
>> trying to build Xiphos which still has a requirement for
>> dbus-glib-1. I'm currently doing a rebuild with CFLAGS set with
>> -O0 instead of -O2 to see if it helps but are there other
>> suggestions?
>
> I've been forcing usage of gcc atomic ops ever since
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652827 instead of relying
> on the fallback implementation.
>
> So I still have the patch from that bug report marked "rejected"
> applied here. By doing so you're also forced to ./configure with
> -march=i486 or higher.
>

Thanks for the quick reply.  I'll definitely give it a try.  Who's still
using i386 anyway??  Or i486 for that matter. ;)

Earnie