Re: Hang during make test

[Steve Wills <swills FreeBSD org>]

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On 11/27/11 18:21, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Steve Wills <swills FreeBSD org> writes:
> > Basically, make test hangs at t/9.t when it reaches test 26.
>
> Within the first Glib::Child->watch_add is it?

Correct.

> > After looking at it, it seems to be due to the call to
> > g_child_watch_add_full eventually calling
> > g_thread_create_posix_impl which uses pthreads (since my glib uses
> > threads)
>
> Oh, that's the crazy glib thing where the child watch uses a signal 
> handler in another thread is it?
>
> > and the fact that my perl does not have thread support enabled.
>
> Glib.xs always does g_thread_init(), maybe.  Should that be inhibited
> in a non-threaded perl?  Though I might have wondered that if perl is
> not threaded it wouldn't care about anyone else using threads or not
> ...

It may be a FreeBSD specific thing as I don't see this behavior on Mac
OS X and from the looks of CPAN testers it doesn't happen on Linux either:

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Glib+1.241

Steve
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