Re: Problems installing Glade

["Joe Simon" <jb.simon@lmco.com>]

"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic.brenta@skynet.be> wrote in message
news:m365k9pob3.fsf@insalien.org...
> "Joe Simon" <jb.simon@lmco.com> writes:
>
> > "Joe Simon" <jb.simon@lmco.com> wrote in message
> > news:bj2sai$n9n3@cui1.lmms.lmco.com...
> > > Run the glade configure script as root...
> > >
> > > [root@mankind glade-3.15p-src]# ./configure
> [...]
> > > checking need to emulate thread blocking I/O...
> > >
> > > And just sits there...
>
> This faintly rings a bell to me.  I seem to remember that Red Hat
> patched their kernel and glibc to include NPTL (New Portable Threads
> Library).  It may be that glade-3.15p has problems with it.  I would
> suggest you look for a way to disable NPTL (perhaps with an
> environment variable, or by writing to a file under /proc).
>
> Also, perhaps using a stock kernel instead of Red Hat's patched kernel
> may help.
>
> Sorry I don't have any more specifics.  I hope this at least points
> you in the right direction.  FWIW, I've had no problems compiling
> glade on a Debian (testing) box with linux 2.4.20-smp and glibc 2.3.1.
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

Thanks, but this sounds like more than I want to bite off. I just wanna
develop software, not muck with kernals, etc.

Thanks !
Joe Simon