Re: Proposal: Enable threads by default

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 18:01 +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Running with this patch i ran into an issue while building
> gnome-shell:
> >
> >  GEN    Gdm-1.0.gir
> >
> > GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.
> > aborting...
> > Command '['/gnome/src/gnome-shell/src/tmp-introspectpoWP_f/Gdm-1.0',
> >
> '--introspect-dump=/gnome/src/gnome-shell/src/tmp-introspectpoWP_f/typ
> es.txt,/gnome/src/gnome-shell/src/tmp-introspectpoWP_f/dump.xml']'
> returned non-zero exit status -5
> >
> > Not sure exactly what crashed, but obviously something ran:
> > g_type_init() and then g_thread_init(). Maybe we need to make this a
> > non-fatal warning?
> 
> Nah, just a bug in the dumper.  Fixed:

This particular instance is fixed, but there can be a lot more out
there. Why force every app to add this check when we could do it
ourselves.

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