Re: threading issue in 1.8.3

[Neil Jerram]

Antoine Mathys <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am having a problem with threads in 1.8.3 .

> It seems that for some reason you cannot load modules from a different thread
> than the one which first initialized guile.
>
> Any idea how to get this to work ?

Apologies for the delay in responding...

I think this is caused by the second thread not knowing what its
current module is.  Can you try adding, before the scm_shell() call:

  scm_set_current_module (scm_lookup_closure_module (SCM_BOOL_F));

and report if that helps?

> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> P.S.
> I used 'pthread_create' instead of 'scm_spawn_thread' for
> simplification because for some reason 'join-thread' has no C
> equivalent. But maybe I am missing something here as well ?

scm_join_thread ?

Regards,
        Neil