xffm hangs on running external programs

edscott wilson garcia edscott at imp.mx
Tue Mar 11 17:33:38 CET 2003


El mar, 11-03-2003 a las 01:29, Jasper Huijsmans escribió:
> On 10 Mar 2003 09:33:25 -0600
> edscott wilson garcia <edscott at imp.mx> wrote:
> 
> > Hey Jasper,
> > 
> > Hmm... I'm guessing that it might have to do with the kernel you are
> > using combined with the use of pthreads. Please try the following with
> > a clean tree: after the configure step, edit the file ./config.h and
> > undefine both HAVE_PTHREADS and HAVE_PTHREAD_H. Then compile and make
> > install to put the libraries in place and check if the problem has
> > gone away. The lines to look for in config.h look like this:
> > 
> > /* Define if there is a pthread header. */
> > #define HAVE_PTHREADS 1
> > 
> > /* Define to 1 if you have the <pthread.h> header file. */
> > #define HAVE_PTHREAD_H 1
> > 
> > 
> 
> Right, that worked. Undefining those macros makes the problem go away.

Hmm... Now that presents a dilema: how to tell configure to test whether
posix threads work ok. Maybe it should default to no-threads and use a
--enable-pthreads directive for configure. Any thoughts on this? 

Edscott

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