Jean-Claude Wippler | 16 Jun 10:53

New svn repository, release 2.4.9.7


The Metakit CVS repository has been migrated to Subversion.
The latest source code can now be obtained as follows:

	svn co svn://svn.equi4.com/metakit/trunk metakit

Snapshots of previous releases are in .../metakit/tags/...

A tar file is available from:
	http://www.equi4.com/pub/mk/metakit-2.4.9.7.tar.gz

In addition, an new release was made to fix bugs in Mk4tcl.
This update only affects Metakit with Tcl in threaded mode.
Below is the corresponding section of the change log.

-jcw

2007-06-16    ############################################    MK 2.4.9.7

     If you're using Tcl in threaded mode, please upgrade - see below.

2007-06-16    Fix threading problems in Mk4tcl

     The Mk4tcl binding had two serious bugs, causing potential crashes
     and database corruption when used in multi-threaded mode:

     1) The Makefile did not set -DTCL_THREADS when configured with
        the "--enable-threads" flag, only -Dq4_MULTI, which is the C++
        level threading support of Metakit.  So all builds were still
        running the Mk4tcl wrapper in unprotected mode (!).
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