X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: ATTN: perl-Tk maintainer RE: perl-Tk is broken Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:42:58 -0600 Message-ID: <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD36836E65@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> From: "Thrall, Bryan" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com RE: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00890.html Reini Urban wrote: >2009/7/24 Wolfgang Goetz: >>>> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=3DTk+804.028_501 >>>> ohjeh.. perl 5.8.8 is yellow for cygwin. >>>> there seems to be no interest at all for the moment. >>> >>> I had some spare time some time ago to fix most of the issues, it compi= les now , >>> just the event loop still needs to be reconfigured. >> >> is /usr/bin/widget working for you? ?all examples? >> the funny thing in my (better: my companies) environment: >> 'widget' solely throws errors. under debugger control all is fine. >> This smells like optimization/parameter flaws for me. >> (mainly the -O3, maybe more) > > No, > It's just the wrong eventloop configuration. > A simple fix, but it needs at least a day to dig through it again and tes= t it. > I mailed Slaven to do that, but he also had no time yet. It sounds like you were on the verge of fixing this problem, but it doesn't= look like there's been any progress since that last email (http://search.c= pan.org/dist/Tk/ lists the latest release as from November 2008). Is there a patch or some other workaround for this problem? Because of it, = we are having to delay upgrading our application to Cygwin 1.7. Thanks, -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com =A0=20 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple