Re: [wxperl-users] WxPerl on FreeBSD?

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

> 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...
Maybe not for this case, but I am sick of seeing

Unknown option "-rdynamic" in LIBS: ignored

everytime I build; and I don't think that Perl should strip arbitrary
thinds from flags, either

> > > 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...
Does this really mean that if you have
libwxgtk.so ( or whatever ) dynamically linked to a perl extension,
this does not work ? and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH ( or whatever it is on *BSD ) does 
not work either ? This is weird...
OTOH, if you resolve this, would you mind writing some instructions
to put on INSTALL.txt ?

Regards
Mattia