RE: [AD] [LNX] Allegro and popen()

["Vincent Penquerc'h" <Vincent.Penquerch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [AD] [LNX] Allegro and popen()

> > I've been trying to use popen to get the output of another
> program... but
> > once allegro_init() is called popen just hangs.
> >
>
> I just found that turning off pthreads makes the problem go away.

Which probably is very related to Allegro hanging for me if I
compile it with pthreads instead of SIGALRM. The outcome for this
was "your libc is too old".
Have you tried using popen in another program that makes use of
threads ?

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Vincent Penquerc'h