gnustep and lwraster disadventures

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hello,

i seem to have problems with libwraster on my sparc.

PREFACE:
if you rememer, I was quite happy having gnustep runing on my sun (ss4,
solaris 2.6, gcc 3.2.2) but it turned out that I wasn't able to open images
besides tiff and that this was related to a missing libwraster (I had
compiled WindowMaker, but after having compiled GNUstep. WMaker is happily
running and in the about box displays all necessary image types).
So I recompiled -gui and -back, but I broke GNUstep, it isn't able to open a
single application anymore, sice it sends invalid X requests and core-dumps
(with every application I tried). I also remoced GNUstep root and rebuilt
everything, nothing.
In the meanwhile on my other sun (ss20) which has the same OS installed but
gcc 2.95, I compiled everything, but without WindowMaker which fails to
compile, and I ended up with the same problem (strange, eh?). Retrying to
build failed miserably: at the second attempt obj-c wasn't working anymore.

FACTS:
So, on this second sparc, ss20, i removed the old gcc, installed the same
binary package as on the ss4, the same libraries, compiled GNUstep without
windowMaker and voila', it works fine! as on the first attempt on the ss4.
Launching correctly the background daemons, many applications build and work
fine (Ink, Gorm, ProjectBuilder...) some others built, open but the
core-dump when working (like GSPdf for example). But in the whole I think it
is working. I launched the Test application in the examples and all seems
ok.

So since the two sparcs have the same software installed, I really think
there is a problem with libwraster. Otherwise it is black magic.

-ric