[GRASS5] Tcl8.4 support?

[Buchan Milne]

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Hamish wrote:
>>>>>But back to Debian with TclTk 8.4 and the bug as reported in
>>>>>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/1883
>>>>>
>>>>>"it does freeze up (0% cpu) at the first instance of "exec"
>>>>>in etc/nviz2.2/scripts/nviz2.2_script, line 78:   (Adding panels
>>>>>section)    set panels [exec cat $index]
>>>>>
>>>>>(I tried placing some exec's further up in the script & they did
>>>>>the same lock-up)"
>>>
>>>G: One thing which might make a difference: try adding "-lpthread"
>>>to the link command. I've occasionally encountered all sorts of
>>>odd behaviour with programs which are linked against libraries
>>>which are linked against libpthread (typically libGL), but where
>>>the binary itself isn't linked directly against libpthread.
>
> ...
>
>>>> (added to src.contrib/GMSL/NVIZ2.2/src/Gmakefile  XTRA_LDFLAGS ?)
>>>
>>>
>>>That works(!)
>>
>>Damn.
>>
>>I have absolutely no idea how we could make configure detect this
>>situation.
>
> ...
>
>>The only easy solution is to provide a switch, e.g. --nviz-pthread,
>>which explicitly add -lpthread to the NVIZ linking switches. At least,
>>providing the switch is easy enough; dealing with user queries of the
>>form "what does this switch do and should I use it?" is likely to be
>>less straightforward.
>
>
> That' still just treating the symptom.. (although that's possibly all we
> can do from our end)
>
> AFAIK, this is currently only a problem with Debian/Testing. Is anybody
> running Gentoo or another bleeding edge distro who can try this? It
> would be bad for the next version of SuSE/RedHat to come out with a new
> glibc, tcl, etc & start showing this behaviour too.

Running on Mandrake cooker:

$ rpm -q glibc tcl
glibc-2.3.2-14mdk
tcl-8.4.2-1mdk

No problems with NVIZ, but I am running the NVIDIA drivers (which
replace libGL.so*). But it seems tcl/tcltk in Mandrake is built without
thread support.

Regards,
Buchan

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