tugs and bugs

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ set( CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeModules )
 # reports.
 #
 
+option( USE_KIWAY_DLLS
+    "Build the major modules as DLLs or DSOs, will soon be the norm." OFF )
+
 #for those who bored with uppercase
 option( KICAD_KEEPCASE "turn-off automatic component name conversion to uppercase if selected" )
 
@@ -146,22 +149,26 @@ if( CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX OR CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "Clang" )
         endif()
 
     else()
-        # We build DLL/DSOs from static libraries, so create position independent code
+        # We build DLL/DSOs from static libraries, so create position independent
-        # for all cases, since we do not have DLL/DSO specific static libraries.
+        # code for all cases, since we do not have DLL/DSO specific static
-        # Subdirectories via add_subdirectores() reference this variable, and it is either set or empty,
+        # libraries. Subdirectories via add_subdirectores() reference this
-        # empty for Windows.
+        # variable, and it is either set or empty, empty for Windows.
         set( PIC_FLAG -fPIC )
 
-        set( CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} ${PIC_FLAG}" )
+        set( CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS}   ${PIC_FLAG}" )
         set( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${PIC_FLAG}" )
 
+        if( CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "Clang" )
+            set( TO_LINKER -XLinker )
+        else()
+            set( TO_LINKER -Wl )
+        endif()
+
         # Thou shalt not link vaporware and tell us it's a valid DSO:
-        set( CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "-Wl,--no-undefined" )
+        set( CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "${TO_LINKER},--no-undefined" )
-        set( CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS "-Wl,--no-undefined" ) # needed by SWIG macros on linux
+        set( CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS "${TO_LINKER},--no-undefined" )
 
-        # Set default flags for Release build.
         set( CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE "-s" )
-
     endif()
 
     # quiet GCC 4.8.1 while in boost

CMakeModules/download_boost.cmake

@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ endif()
 
 ExternalProject_Add( boost
     PREFIX          "${PREFIX}"
+    TIMEOUT         60
     DOWNLOAD_DIR    "${DOWNLOAD_DIR}"
     INSTALL_DIR     "${BOOST_ROOT}"
     URL             http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/${BOOST_RELEASE}/boost_${BOOST_VERS}.tar.bz2

common/footprint_info.cpp

@@ -205,6 +205,16 @@ bool FOOTPRINT_LIST::ReadFootprintFiles( FP_LIB_TABLE* aTable, const wxString* a
 
 #if USE_WORKER_THREADS
 
+        // Even though the PLUGIN API implementation is the place for the
+        // locale toggling, in order to keep LOCAL_IO::C_count at 1 or greater
+        // for the duration of all helper threads, we increment by one here via instantiation.
+        // Only done here because of the multi-threaded nature of this code.
+        // Without this C_count skips in and out of "equal to zero" and causes
+        // needless locale toggling among the threads, based on which of them
+        // are in a PLUGIN::FootprintLoad() function.  And that is occasionally
+        // none of them.
+        LOCALE_IO   top_most_nesting;
+
         // Something which will not invoke a thread copy constructor, one of many ways obviously:
         typedef boost::ptr_vector< boost::thread >  MYTHREADS;
 

include/common.h

@@ -433,18 +433,30 @@ class LOCALE_IO
 public:
     LOCALE_IO()
     {
-        if( C_count++ == 0 )
+        wxASSERT_MSG( C_count >= 0, wxT( "LOCALE_IO::C_count mismanaged." ) );
+
+        // use thread safe, atomic operation
+        if( __sync_fetch_and_add( &C_count, 1 ) == 0 )
+        {
+            // printf( "setting C locale.\n" );
             SetLocaleTo_C_standard();
+        }
     }
 
     ~LOCALE_IO()
     {
-        if( --C_count == 0 )
+        // use thread safe, atomic operation
+        if( __sync_sub_and_fetch( &C_count, 1 ) == 0 )
+        {
+            // printf( "restoring default locale.\n" );
             SetLocaleTo_Default();
+        }
+
+        wxASSERT_MSG( C_count >= 0, wxT( "LOCALE_IO::C_count mismanaged." ) );
     }
 
 private:
-    static int C_count;     // allow for nesting of LOCALE_IO instantiations
+    static int  C_count;    // allow for nesting of LOCALE_IO instantiations
 };