Re: Gtk2->init hangs

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

muppet said:
> On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 09:38  AM, Ross McFarland wrote:
>
> > A. Pagaltzis said:
> > > I've had this strange problem for a while now. I have no idea
> > > what might be causing it. Please tell me what information might
> > > be necessary to help fix this - I'm stumped.
> >
> > we've seen similar on slackware the only thing that ever seemed to
> > come of it
> > was something about the way that Perl and Gtk+ we're compiled or
> > something
> > really funky that didn't seem to be our fault.
>
> specifically, it appears to be an interesting interaction between a
> non-threaded perl and threaded glib/gtk+.
>
> just to satisfy my curisiosity, what happens if you build the Glib
> module with
>
>     perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=whatever  disable-threadsafe
>
> ??  do you still get the hangs in Gtk2?

did no good in the slackware stuff i tried recently, that was one of my first
thoughts, it apparently has nothing to do with the call to g_init_threads
(whatever it exactly is)

-rm