Hello there, I'm the maintainer for mirrormagic. I've got an x86 system, hope you can forgive my little inadequacies.
update_excuses.html says mirrormagic has issues getting into testing because of the following bug on powerpc (well, I gather this excuse has been overridden, and mirrormagic 2.0.0 isn't in testing because libsdl1.1 isn't, but anyway...) According to http://voltaire.debian.org/buildd/buildlogs/mirrormagic/latest, we have this compile-time error: gcc main.o init.o events.o tools.o screens.o game.o editor.o files.o cartoons.o libgame/libgame.a -lSDL_image -lSDL_mixer -L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread -lm -o ../mirrormagic libgame/libgame.a(gadgets.o): In function HandleGadgetTags': gadgets.o(.text+0x9f8): undefined reference to __va_arg_type_violation' gadgets.o(.text+0x9f8): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 __va_arg_type_violation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [../mirrormagic] Error 1 The code in question is declared as: static void HandleGadgetTags(struct GadgetInfo *gi, int first_tag, va_list ap) and the va_arg argument is used in several places inside, e.g. gi->custom_id = va_arg(ap, int); strncpy(gi->info_text, va_arg(ap, char *), max_textsize); gi->type = va_arg(ap, unsigned long); gi->deco.width = va_arg(ap, int); gi->deco.height = va_arg(ap, int); gi->design[GD_BUTTON_PRESSED].bitmap = va_arg(ap, Bitmap *); gi->event_mask = va_arg(ap, unsigned long); gi->callback_info = va_arg(ap, gadget_function); etc. gi (GadgetInfo) looks like: struct GadgetInfo { int id; /* internal gadget identifier */ int custom_id; /* custom gadget identifier */ int custom_type_id; /* custom gadget type identifier */ char info_text[MAX_INFO_TEXTSIZE]; /* short popup info text */ int x, y; /* gadget position */ int width, height; /* gadget size */ unsigned long type; /* type (button, text input, ...) */ unsigned long state; /* state (pressed, released, ...) */ boolean checked; /* check/radio button state */ int radio_nr; /* number of radio button series */ boolean mapped; /* gadget is active */ struct GadgetBorder border; /* gadget border design */ struct GadgetDesign design[2]; /* 0: normal; 1: pressed */ struct GadgetDesign alt_design[2]; /* alternative design */ struct GadgetDecoration deco; /* decoration on top of gadget */ unsigned long event_mask; /* possible events for this gadget */ struct GadgetEvent event; /* actual gadget event */ gadget_function callback_info; /* function for pop-up info text */ gadget_function callback_action; /* function for gadget action */ struct GadgetDrawingArea drawing; /* fields for drawing area gadget */ struct GadgetTextInput text; /* fields for text input gadget */ struct GadgetScrollbar scrollbar; /* fields for scrollbar gadget */ struct GadgetInfo *next; /* next list entry */ }; So this "undefined reference to __va_arg_type_violation", is it a known problem on the powerpc? Have others met it? Or does it mean the code has been written poorly? There's nothing obviously bad in the code that I can see, but I've never had to deal with powerpc or endian issues before (though I can't see any issues here). It works fine on x86. Thanks for any clues, Drew Parsons -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
