Re: Creating a GNUstep desktop on Solaris

[Christian Plessl]

> some further expereinces with setting up ad esktopnon a Solaris machine. 
> I found sources for TextEdit.app and Terminal.app on 
> http://www.nongnu.org/backbone.
>
>     cd /usr/src
>     export CVS_RSH="ssh"
>     cvs -danoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/backbone co System
>
> TextEdit.app built successfully. It can be started. Howver, when I try 
> to create a new document the application crashes "Illegal Instruction 
> (core dumped)". Is this platform related or should I douwnload the 
> sources from anywhere else. I can't believe that a simple app like 
> TextEdit.app is not yet stable.

Recently I compiled the whole gnustep environment (CVS checkout) on a 
Solaris 8 machine just for fun and to see whether the programming 
environment is comparable to Mac OS X.

When trying out a couple of applications, I've also had frequent 
"Illegal instruction" errors. Although the applications seemed to to run 
fine for some seconds or minutes and then suddenly crash with a 'illegal 
instruction' error.

I tried to investigate 'illegal instruction' problem a little more with 
the gdb debugger, but I failed to track down to the problem.

Another nasty problem that occured was, that the application windows 
suddenly disappear. Maybe they are hidden by the window manager (fvwm2 
in my case) which makes gnustep gnustep applications nearly unusable 
with my setup.
But due to time constraints, I did not look any further into that.

Best regards,
 Christian