Re: Problems on Gtk2->init

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Calle Dybedahl said:
> > > > > > "Ross" == Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> One possible cause for the plug/socket test to fail is if you run it
> with another perl binary than the system default one. The test does a
> fork/exec, and the exec:ed binary is simply specified as "perl", which
> will be resolved using your $PATH as usual. If that's not the same
> perl binary as is running the test, wonkiness may ensue.
> --

good spot, i thought of that a few mins after i sent the message, but figured
it wasn't worth me resending to correct myself. made sure that it was true and
sure enough it was. have a patch to submit here for that test in a little
while (as soon as sourceforge devel cvs is responding). you'll get credit for
spotting it.

-rm