Re: Gtk2->init hangs

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

> > 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.

Aha! That's what I'm on.

Slackware 9, Perl 5.8.0 nothreads, Gtk+ 2.2.1

* muppet <scott asofyet org> [2003-08-23 16:01]:
> specifically, it appears to be an interesting interaction
> between a non-threaded perl and threaded glib/gtk+.

That makes sense. Good incentive to get that threaded Perl
compiled sooner I guess (I need one for Apache2 anyway).

> 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?

Just checked. Doesn't help. Interestingly enough, this problem
does not occur with the 0.26 versions of both modules.

Thanks for your help everyone!

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