On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 03:28:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Hello, ... > > i have been playing with the libgtk and libglib packages yesterday, and have > problems with it. > > the current packages are libglib1.1.4 and libgtk1.1.2, and i was unable to > compile some test programs with this two, the linker complained about some > inexistent symbol in glib and something about [EMAIL PROTECTED] so i got the > source from this package i got on my local mirror (only libglib 1.1.3 and > libgtk1.1.2) compiled them installed them, and my compile problem went away, > but the resulting program hangs with :
This is a known issue with different glibc versions. The libraries will continue to _work_ under different glibcs than they were built with, but must be recompiled in many cases to be able to build new programs. > Gdk-Message: > ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught > > not very meaningful. > > did somone manage to compile and run gtk programs on debian/ppc ? should i get > the latest libglib ? (there are some endian things in the CHANGES for the > latest version ?). Some (many) GTK apps will do this if not started from gnome-panel. I have got at least eeyes working locally, so not all is lost. > > ok about the xterm problems i had, i did a strace, and it was a permission > problem when opening /dev/tty. my /dev/tty is from an earlier base tarball, > but > i think that i ran MAKEDEV on it. anyway it shows the following permisions : > > rw-r--r--, so i chmoded that, and it worked fine, but a when i tried to open a > second xterm, i got a :no more free /dev/tty" or something similar, any idea > what is wrong here ? Send me an strace of the second one, then. Something is going wrong. > also when i installed the server, and asked to put in the packages XF86Config, > it tried to parse the existing XF86Config, and complained about Device > "fbdev". > so i stopped the upgrade, and just left the old XF86Config in place. Is this a > Bug ? Yes, but I'm not really looking at X bugs until 3.3.3 is in place, and even then perhaps not for a month. It's the week before final exams, and then break. Dan
