Re: GIO will link with -pthread soon

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 11:56 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> On 11/18/2009 11:17 AM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > While the GSlice allocator storing some per-thread data and getting messed
> > up across g_thread_init() might be a fixable bug
> 
> it was fixed a very long time ago. The problem, as you note, is with
> everything above libglib in the stack, not with libglib itself.
> 
> (Even libgio fails. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595757)

We really need to get our story together here. Either we do our very
best to handle late g_thread_init(), or we should fail spectactularly.
Silently breaking in minor ways is not a good idea...

I guess orbit needing this is the main reason why we can't just make it
fail?