Re: NSProcessInfo is not initialized when debugging

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

Ah ... I misunderstood ... I use GNUstep built from source rather than 
the debian packages.

I don't know how you can get an app linked with both debug and 
non-debug libraries, but
I can see that it could cause problems if one version of NSProcessInfo 
gets initialised and
somehow another version from a different library then gets used 
(uninitialised).

Is one of the debug libraries (eg the gui library) linked with a 
non-debug version of the
base library?  Perhaps when the debian package was built the maintainer 
did it in the
wrong order, so that  the debug gui library was linked with the 
non-debug  base library
because the debug version of the base library hadn't yet been 
built/installed?

On 20 May 2004, at 18:43, Martin Kuball wrote:

> I should add that the problems only apeared after I installed the
> debug versions of the gnustep libs.
> OK I tried gdb to see whats happening. I set a breakpoint on the line
> with [NSProcessInfo processInfo]. When I step into the message call I
> end up in NSProcessInfo _gnu_process_args method. But no line number.
> The backtrace looks odd (missing the main function I'm coming from)
> and besides that claims that the method is from the non-debug version
> of the library. ldding the program reveals that it is indeed linked
> against both versions of libgnustep-base, the debug one and the non
> debug one. Strange!
>
> Martin
>
>
> Am Thursday 20 May 2004 15:53 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:
> > On 20 May 2004, at 09:25, Martin Kuball wrote:
> > > Nobody knows an answer? Or am I simply not in the right group to
> > > ask this question?
> > >
> > > Am Tuesday 18 May 2004 22:37 schrieb Martin Kuball:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > My system is a debian unstable on Linux 2.4.26. When I try to
> > > > debug a programm that uses the gnustep-gui lib I get the
> > > > following message: ./shared_debug_obj/imgmerger: Uncaught
> > > > exception NSInternalInconsistencyException, reason:
> > > >         GNUSTEP Internal Error:
> > > >         The private GNUstep function to establish the argv and
> > > > environment variables was not called.
> > > >
> > > > I tried to initialize the NSProcessInfo by myself using
> > > >         [NSProcessInfo initializeWithArguments: argv
> > > >                                      count: argc
> > > >                                environment: environ];
> > > > or
> > > >         [NSProcessInfo load];
> > > > right at the beginning of the main method. But nothing helped.
> > > > Note that the methods got executed because the error comes up
> > > > only when I call [NSProcessInfo processInfo] later in the code.
> > > >
> > > > Any workaround known?
> >
> > I use debian unstable.
> > Currently I'm on kernel 2.6.4-1, but I had no problem on older
> > kernels either.
> > You should not need to do anything special ... initialisation
> > should be done automatically,
> > so if you are having this problem, something is very messed up and
> > you probably need to
> > reconfigure/rebuild the base library.
> >
> > Looking at the core/base/config.log might help figure out what
> > could have gone wrong ...
> > but if not, your only option is to build the library with
> > 'debug=yes' and run gdb on your
> > application to step through the code and see what is happening.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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