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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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