tcl / tk without threads??!!

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Can someone explain why tcl/tk is
> compiled using:
>
> %configure --disable-threads
>
> This breaks some python programs, which use threads and Tk, with the
> following error:
>
> Unhandled exception in thread started by <function updateClock at
> 0x7fb431cc28c0>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File ".//08-clock-bezier.py", line 188, in updateClock
>     setClock (h,m,s)
>   File ".//08-clock-bezier.py", line 173, in setClock
>     clock.itemconfigure("hands", fill=colors[sector])
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2243, in
> itemconfigure
>     return self._configure(('itemconfigure', tagOrId), cnf, kw)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1188, in _configure
>     self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
> _tkinter.TclError: out of stack space (infinite loop?)
>
> Please, check this issue:
>
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2008-September/060100.html
>
> It happens on F10 and F11.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
and, yes. Recompiling tcl using

 %configure --enable-threads

fix the issue. I have just tested it.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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