Re: gnustep and lwraster disadventures

[Adam Fedor]

On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 03:02 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> 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.

That seems odd, but stranger things have happened. libwraster works 
fine on the Solaris 2.7 I test on. Some window managers don't like how 
GNUstep does X11 things. A backtrace might help see what the problem is.

Also one frequent reason GNUstep apps crash is that Solaris machines 
can't handle assigning a structure from a null pointer like this:

NSRect rect = [MyNilObject frame];

where MyNillObject = nil. Which works fine on most other OSs.