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

[Yen-Ju Chen]

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.

  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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