Re: Fwd: Re: 5.2 rc2 tarball now available

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> It isn't the wxgtk library that wants X11, it's gnuplot's use of 
> XInitThreads() that requires X11.  wxgtk configure can't 
> anticipate our use of an X function.  wx_gui shouldn't be using 
> XInitThreads().

I'd just like to underscore Daniel's last point here. Surely it's a 
dangerous hack for the gnuplot code to call XInitThreads() "on 
behalf of" wxWidgets (in wxt_gui.h). I suspect this may be related 
to the segfault I reported earlier today.

<danger-will-robinson>
#if defined(WXT_MULTITHREADED) && defined(WX_NEEDS_XINITTHREADS) && 
defined(X11)
 	/* Magic fix needed by wxgtk3.0 */
         wxtApp() : wxApp() { XInitThreads(); }
#endif
</danger-will-robinson>

Allin Cottrell