Re: Problems on Gtk2->init

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

good news/bad news/odd news:
- good news is i got things working on slackware.
- bad news is that it required compiling a perl from scratch with thread support
- odd news was that everything except gtk plug/socket worked. (have no clue)

based on this i'm going to say that it's (probably) a problem between
slackware's perl and gtk. as Gtk2-Perl works on just about every other system
out there and everything is getting to the point at which C code is called by
Gtk2-Perl and called correctly, as far as i can tell. i can't for the life of
me explain this, and i'm out of ideas. i won't say however that it was the
threading support that fixed it perhaps there's just something that doesn't
jive in the perl to begin with and just recompiling perl from source would
have fixed it.

as for why the gtk plug/socket stuff failed after the rebuild i haven't a
clue, but it seems to work on other systems where appropriate. perhaps another
similar problem.

i looked around for a slackware mailing list, on their site, and all that was
menioned was an announcement list that hadn't had anything in 2003 and a
security list that didn't seem appropriate. i was going to ask a mailing list
to see what people more familiar with slackware thought it might be, but
couldn't find one to ask on.

at this point i'm pretty much going to drop it. if you want to use Gtk2-Perl
unfortunatly it seems that you'll have to build your own perl (with thread
support.) if someone else wants to investigate further have at it.

-rm