Re: display problems with some apps

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On 04/09/11 14:31, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> On 09.04.2011 13:49, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>> On 04/09/11 11:38, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>>> On 04/08/11 14:25, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> wow, that looks mighty ugly. I guess with art or xlib it is fine?
>>> I installed a clean machine from scratch, so openbsd -current from
>>> yesterday, and updated make/base/gui from svn. Compiling with
>>> llvm/libobjc2 this time again, and also tested arts and xlib backends,
>>> but also there I have this displaying problem observed.
>>> I also have this problem here with GWorkspace, The file viewer only
>>> shows the first two columns correctly. And also the application dock on
>>> the right side of the screen doesn't appear. When I click the
>>> logout/quit buttons in the GWorkspace menu, then the buttons in the
>>> popup are not shown.
>>>
>>> However, this random crash on startup in pl2link, FTP, ... is gone
>>> here.
>>>
>>> On my main desktop I yesterday recompiled everything with gcc, and also
>>> libobjc2, and here I was not able to reproduce the problem.
>>> Therefore I'll now recompile everything with gcc on the clean box
>>> again,
>>> to see whether this is really the only difference.
>> It seems to be the case whether using llvm/clang or gcc seems to be the
>> difference. I compiled everything I need to start AddressManager and FTP
>> (gworkspace is still compiling, but I think this will then also work)
>> with gcc. I started FTP about 30 times, and always looked good. Also
>> started AddressManager a couple of times, and it looked good.
>
> This then looks like a bug in clang/libobjc2 to me. I went through the
> output file you send me from compiling with clang and there were a few
> bugs detected, which I am going to fix later today, but none of them
> would justify the results you are getting. Most of them are printf
> format errors. It is great that clang pays extra attention here.
>
> You could try to use a different combination of runtime and compiler
> to narrow down the real culprit. Not sure whether gcc + libobjc2 or
> clang + libobjc are supposed to work.

I tried libobjc2 + gcc, I only exchanged llvm/clang with gcc, this is
where it works well. In the meantime GWorkspace compiled to the end, and
also looks good.

Sebastian

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