Re: Just installed GNUstep from SVN and have a bunch of issues

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 9/9/07, Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/9/07, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Stefan Bidigaray wrote:
> > > Like the title says, I just installed GS again but ran into some
> > > annoying bugs.  I'll list them here, but let me know if you guys would
> > > rather have me report them using savannah...
> > >
> > > - Cairo back end just simple doesn't work.  All I get are completely
> > > white windows (this is a regression since it used to work last time I
> > > tried a few months ago) with errors that say:
> > > 2007-09-08 16:14:00.557 SystemPreferences[28697] Cairo status out of
> > > memory in copy path
> > > over and over again...
>
>   I had cairo backend work a few days ago,
>   right after submitting patch for configure.ac to correctly check
>   XRender for cairo backend.
>   At that time, my cairo was 1.2.4 on Ubuntu 6.10/PPC.
>   After getting the GNUstep svn this morning,
>   Backend won't compile with cairo 1.2.4 due to some missing variables,
>   so I installed cairo 1.4.10 and got exact the error of
>   " Cairo status out of memory in copy path".
>   I believe something is broken during that period of time.

  I check out the gnustpe-back r25450
  and it has the same problem of "out of memory".
  r25450 is the last version which worked for me with cairo 1.2.4.
  So I guess something is changed in cairo from 1.2.4 to 1.4.10
  which breaks cairo backend for some platforms.

  Yen-Ju

>
>   Regards
>
>   Yen-Ju
>
> > >
> > > - SystemPreferences' "Quit" menu button no longer works.  Clicking it
> > > (or using the Alt+Q shortcut) is the same as clicking "Show All"
> > >
> > > This is just after installing GNUstep-core, GWorkspace and
> > > SystemPreferences.  I'm also attaching the output of the gui testsuite.
> > > I failed in a few places.  Not sure if these are known issues or not.
> > >
> > > All this is using GNUstep from svn r25465 (checked out this morning).
> > >
> >
> > Thank you for running the test suite. Two of the errors you got should
> > already be fixed in the test suite. The were caused by the tests
> > checking for float identity, which is never a good idea. The last one is
> > caused by changed implicit includes and I will fix it soon in the test
> > code. The other two are more serious and I am still looking into them.
> >
> > If cairo is not working for you, you are most likely working on FreeBSD.
> > We already have a few bug report about this. But with no way to
> > reproduce this I am a bit stuck in solving the issue. The strangest
> > thing here is that we are not really using the cairo path, so there
> > shouldn't be to many points in it. Perhaps somebody could add some debug
> > code to output the cairo path before attempting to copy it?
> >
> > And the quit button in SystemPreferences works for me, but I had to make
> > clean before doing a make there.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Fred
> >
> >
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