Re: GWorkspace and gcc 4.6

[Germán Arias]

Well, after update gnustep today, GWorkspace works fine. Some change in
base, I suppose.

On lun, 2011-06-20 at 08:41 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "this bug has been known for several years" (wow, did you copy the 
> spelling error too?
> 
> In fact, GWorkspace has been able to destroy and trash files since a 
> while now. I have it compiled also with gcc 4.6 without noticing any 
> problems, thus I don't think it is related directly to that.
> 
> I will test on a couple of my platforms to check and ask others... to 
> test too. Please use SVN since it should contain some fixes (although 
> well, if you prove that it works with the last release, perhaps not all 
> fixes were painless).
> 
> Riccardo
> 
> Germán Arias wrote:
> > Currently. trying to destroy a file in GWorkspace (from SVN), the app
> > freezes. On a terminal I get the error:
> >
> >
> > WARNING your program is becoming multi-threaded, but you are using an
> > ObjectiveC runtime library which does not have a thread-safe
> > implementation of the +initialize method.  This means that any classes
> > not already used may be incorrectly initialised, potentially causing
> > strange behaviors and crashes.
> > To put this into context, the runtime bug has been knoown for several
> > years and
> > only rarely causes problems ... the easy workaround being to ensure that
> > any classes used by a new thread have already been used in the main
> > thread before the new thread starts.
> > If you are worried, please build/run GNUstep with a runtime which
> > supports the +initialize method. The GNUstep stable runtime (libobjc)
> > and experimental runtime (libobjc2), available from the GNUstep website
> > and subversion repository, should both work.
> > To disable this warning (eg. for an application which does not suffer
> > any problems caused by this runtime bug), please set the
> > GSSilenceInitializeWarning user default to YES.
> >
> >
> > Even if I set GSSilenceInitializeWarning to YES, the app freezes.
> >
> >
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