Re: [wxperl-users] WxPerl on FreeBSD?

[Bert D. <dri...@pl...>]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Mattia Barbon wrote:

> > Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '-pthread'
> I don't know if I can work around this ( for all platforms ), but I'll try

I'm not sure it makes sense at this stage...

> > Wheb built this way, "make test" reports it can't find pthread_create.
> > 
> > Manually sprinkling a bunch of "-pthread"s and "-lc_r" gets it to build,
> did you add -Wl,-E, too? 

Yup. Actually, they were already in there from the standard MakeMaker
magic.

> > but predictably with this voodoo the extension is not very stable (a bit
> > of clicking around in demo/samples/controls/controls.pl and some
> > resizing, and foom: a Perl crash without further traceback in xdr_u_int;
> > obviously a threadsafe/no threadsafe mismatch).
> > 
> > FreeBSD 4.4, the Perl that came with it (5.005_03), wxWindows build from
> > the ports collection of FreeBSD 4.4 (wxgtk-2.2.7,1).
> You might try to rebuild wxWindows with --disable-threads ( and maybe
> gtk/glib ? ); unfortunately I can't reproduce this, because I don't
> havd FreeBSD, and on Linux building wxWindows with threads and perl without does work 
> just fine.

That would work, but that would cause other apps to fail :-(

Alternatively I could build seperate non-threaded libraries just for
WxPerl (which, by the way, is not the only victim of the way threads are
handled on FreeBSD), but in my experience it's pretty hard to make Perl
play ball with that setup, unless those libs are linked in
statically. I've had some successes doing that in the past, but it's not
fun exercise...

Cheers,

				-- Bert

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