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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:09:26 -0400
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Identifying pthread threading bug
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Roger Leigh wrote:

| I am building glib on cygwin, using this release:
|
|
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.6/2.6.1/sources/glib-2.4.1.tar.bz2
|
| When I build with
|
|   ./configure -C --prefix=/usr --enable-threads --with-libiconv \
|                  --enable-shared --disable-static
|
| the build succeeds, but the unit test test/child-test waits indefinitely
| on a child.
|
| When I build with
|
|   ./configure -C --prefix=/usr --disable-threads --with-libiconv \
|                  --enable-shared --disable-static
|
| the test succeeds.
|
| I infer that the problem is due to enabling threading, and since the
| code works on most, if not all, other platforms supporting POSIX
| threads, I think it's likely that it's doing something that Cygwin
| doesn't like, or is racy.  Could anyone suggest how I might track down
| the cause of the problem?  I'm not particularly familiar with the Cygwin
| internals, or threading, but I'm OK with gdb and C.

I suggest you visit the CyGnome2 project at
http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/ and perhaps ask this question on their
cygnome2-devel list.  I know the project head has built GTK+ 2.4 but
hasn't released it due to bugs; I think he could give you more details.

Yaakov

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