From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31871 invoked by alias); 24 May 2004 16:09:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31786 invoked from network); 24 May 2004 16:09:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO out010.verizon.net) (206.46.170.133) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 May 2004 16:09:34 -0000 Received: from [68.160.209.184] by out010.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040524160929.SLLL1910.out010.verizon.net@[68.160.209.184]> for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 11:09:29 -0500 Message-ID: <40B21E36.4070600@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:34:00 -0000 From: Yaakov Selkowitz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Identifying pthread threading bug References: <20040524132428.GA1462@system10> In-Reply-To: <20040524132428.GA1462@system10> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [68.160.209.184] at Mon, 24 May 2004 11:09:29 -0500 X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00792.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAsh40piWmPGlmQSMRAvhJAJ9eMfnFrmKZ9Lu7cydmCXr37+dodgCfdrw5 kNzfK0zXlxpRhLXrcyxcZ5o= =yN8p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/