Re: Threading problem on Slackware 9.x

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 10:57, g lemonia org wrote:
> Hi all -
>
>   Just as information, this problem "Q: Everything hangs at Gtk2->init or
> Gtk2 '-init' / What's up 'make test' just stops as soon as it starts.",
> as described at http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/faq/#35 happens on my
> system too.  I do not use debain, but am running slackware 9.0 at home
> and 9.1 at work.  'make test' and 'use Gtk -init' hang on both.  Running
> use Gtk -init through the perl debugger kills the terminal completely.
>
>   I have tried re-making Glib.pm with --disable-threadsafe, and I have
> Gtk+-2.2.4 with glib 2.2.3, which I think are the latest.
>
>   I don't know if you have any further ideas about this, I might try to
> recompile perl with threading enabled (it definitely isn't at the
> moment), or perhaps switch distros, though I do like Slackware, if
> anyone has managed to fix this, let us know :o)

no need to switch distros or anything that drastic. this is a known
problem with any non-threaded perl. it seems to be interactions between
perl and glib/gthread/gtk+. more than that we know not.

a threaded perl should fix things for you.

-rm