Re: GNUstep on Solaris 2.6

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 06:00 AM, Martin Brecher wrote:

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> Hi, -
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> recently I tried to run GNUstep on Solaris 2.6.
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> Gladly, most of the required packages (gcc33, etc) can be obtained from
> www.sunfreeware.com. Only ffcall, gmp and Window Maker had to be
> compiled locally.
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> The build process of GNUstep ran very smoothly.
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> However, I'm unable to run any application. Issuing openapp Ink.app at
> the console results in a lot of X-Windows error messages followed by a
> core dump.
>
> Maybe someone can give me some advice. An excerpt of the error script 
> is
> posted below. I was using the xlib backend. (Is -art supposed to work 
> on
> Solaris?)

It's probably unlikely that it is the graphics backend. More likely is 
the X server (x11) section of the backend. Someone else was having 
similar problems on Solaris 2.6. I remember that it was crashing in a 
place that it shouldn't be possible for it to crash 
(XGServerWindow.m:setWindowHintsForStyle), unless  the 
XGetWindowProperty call returned a bogus success value when it really 
didn't succeed.

It would be helpful if you could debug it or just get some backtraces. 
Compile the libraries with debug=yes, if possible and

debugapp MyApp.debug
run
bakctrace

To get info about the seg fault.

Also debug with

debugapp MyApp.debug --GNU-Debug=XSynchronize

and that will cause the app to crash after the first X-Windows error 
and you can get a backtrace there also.