[GRASS-dev] [bug #4493] (grass) gis.m fails to start GUI

[Michael Barton]

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Michael
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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:38:52 +0100
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Paolo Cavallini via RT <grass-bugs at intevation.de>, Hamish
> <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>, <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] [bug #4493] (grass) gis.m fails to start GUI
> 
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> But this works fine in 8.4 in both x11 and Mac OSX versions on my Mac and
>> for FC4. Is 8.4 for Debian so different?
> 
> It appears that threading is an optional feature in 8.4.
> 
> 
> The Gentoo ebuild for Tcl has a "threads" option, corresponding to the
> --enable-threads configure switch. However, it also has this:
> 
> pkg_setup() {
> if use threads ; then
> ewarn ""
> ewarn "PLEASE NOTE: You are compiling ${P} with"
> ewarn "threading enabled."
> ewarn "Threading is not supported by all applications"
> ewarn "that compile against tcl. You use threading at"
> ewarn "your own discretion."
> ewarn ""
> epause 5
> fi
> }
> 
> My guess is that the Debian package uses threads while the FC4 version
> doesn't. FWIW, my version was built without thread support.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>