Re: MkLinux gnustep make troubles

[Forest Dean Feighner]

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 05:18 PM, Alex Perez wrote:

> > I am having difficulties compiling the gnustep/core on 
> > MkLinux-RC2-RD2.
> > Following the GNUstep-HOWTO I am able to make and install core/make 
> > and
> > core/base. The build fails with an error in core/gui about
> > GSspell.plist. I then check the binaries installed and find that
> > defaults segfaults.
> MkLinux is really not supported. If you don't mind me asking, why do 
> you
> use MkLinux? There are Linux distributions that are actually updated 
> on a
> regular basis for PPC and are far superior. MkLinux is a bastard 
> offspring
> of Linux, hasnt been updated since August 2002, and generally isn't
> considered of any importance by anyone.

That kinda why I like it : ) I have an old, trusty, 601 and MkLinux was 
made to run on that hardware. MkLinux was my first introduction to 
linux, and so, I'm rather fond of MkLinux. I like the MkLinux community 
as they support MkLinux as a learning tool. It is true that the kernel 
is a bit old but perhaps someday I'll learn how to update the kernel 
source : )

> That being said, if we can fix the problem and its something simple, we
> probably will do so.

Great!! Here is the backtrace I'm getting from defaults:

Starting program: /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/defaults
[New Thread 1024 (runnable)]
backtrace

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (runnable)]
0x0ff3d8d4 in __vacall_r () from 
/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x0ff3d8d4 in __vacall_r ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#1  0x0fed9928 in _i_NSString__initWithFormat_locale_arguments_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#2  0x0fed986c in _i_NSString__initWithFormat_arguments_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#3  0x0ff249b8 in _c_NSString_GSCategories_stringWithFormat_arguments_ 
()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#4  0x0fe84744 in _c_NSException__raise_format_arguments_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#5  0x0fe846b0 in _c_NSException__raise_format_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#6  0x0ff157dc in GSInvocationCallback ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#7  0x0ff3d974 in __vacall_r ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#8  0x0fed9928 in _i_NSString__initWithFormat_locale_arguments_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#9  0x0fed986c in _i_NSString__initWithFormat_arguments_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#10 0x0ff249b8 in _c_NSString_GSCategories_stringWithFormat_arguments_ 
()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#11 0x0fe84744 in _c_NSException__raise_format_arguments_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#12 0x0fe846b0 in _c_NSException__raise_format_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#13 0x0ff157dc in GSInvocationCallback ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#14 0x0ff3d974 in __vacall_r ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#15 0x0fed9928 in _i_NSString__initWithFormat_locale_arguments_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
#16 0x0fed986c in _i_NSString__initWithFormat_arguments_ ()
   from /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1
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Thanks
Forest