xscreensaver-gnome & threads

[Stephen Hilton]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:01:35 +0100
Simon Barner <barner at in.tum.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> xscreensaver-gnome did not work on my 5.2.1-p1 system (it mumbled
> something like "Could not write ${HOME}/.xscreensaver: Bad file
> descriptor)".
> 
> I recompiled it with thread support, and it works like a charm now.
> 
> Simon
> 

Simon,

I had the same situation and Marcus suggested _adding_ a 
${PTHREAD_LIBS} to the LDCONFIG line in the Makefile.

This got me running also. xscreensaver-demo would crash on 
me with a similar error as yours.




Regards,

Stephen Hilton
nospam at hiltonbsd.com