Re: gEDA-user: PCB Gtk port

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 28, 2005, at 9:25 PM, Daniel Nilsson wrote:
> So I knew that building GTK+ 2.6 on Solaris is a bit of a hazzle due
> to the Xrender stuff, that's why I wanted to point you to the
> libraries yesterday that I used to make it work. I have GTK+ 2.6
> running under Solaris 8 / SPARC, it does not require the XRENDER
> extension on the Xserver.

  Hold on...If this is true, then I may be able to get around my 
biggest issue.  I ran smack into this:

Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display ":2.0".

  This happens with anything linked against those libraries.  If you 
know of a way to build (or run) that stuff in such a way that it will 
operate without that extension, well, I'll have a much happier time 
with all of this.

>  I know how you feel though, I thought too
> that starting with GTK+ 2.something that you were out of luck unless
> you had XRENDER on the Xserver. But after reading up on it I found
> those libraries from Keith that made it all work, they did pay
> attention to make sure that users on Sun/AIX/Tru64 etc etc shouldn't
> be unable to use apps requiring GTK+ 2.6.

  Ok...I will take your word on this and I will research this further 
tonight.  I truly hope that this is correct for Solaris9 as well.

> I don't understand how your build of GTK+ 2.6 could break the (SUN
> supplied ?) gnome-terminal ? You didn't overwrite the system wide GTK+
> libraries in /usr did you ?

  Nope, that's the confusing part...it's all installed in 
/usr/local/lib, and crle reports /usr/lib before /usr/local/lib in the 
shared library search path.  I can find no explanation as to why some 
other executables are pulling shared libs from /usr/local/lib first...I 
will have to research that some more.  Weird!

> To prove that the whole thing I just built GTK-PCB on Solaris 8 and
> took it for a spin. The GUI comes up and looks good, but the
> application dumps core when trying to load a file. This is since
> gui_output_set_name_label receives a null pointer from LoadPCB in
> file.c:215. It's downhill from there until it finally blows up in
> strlen in libc.

  Well that's a lot farther than I've gotten.  I will look for the 
stuff that you referred to above.  I will send you some virtual 
uuencoded beer if I get this working.  And I'll owe Marvin a big hug 
for the verbal hand grenades I've been throwing at him all night.

          -Dave

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