Hi there, this is my first post. I've signed up here because I have a particular problem I like to discuss with the developers.
I'm a long-time software developer, although I'm not a big fan of Unix and derivates. I am mostly developing for OS X, and used to do for classic Mac OS, so I'm more of a autmatic tools user than a user of command line tools. Anyway. I've created a 32 bit application that uses Gtk 2, which launches fine on the 32 Bit Ubuntu 9.10 default installation. But when I launch the same app on the 64 bit Ubuntu version, the following things happen: 1. When launching by double clicking it within the Explorer (sorry, haven't figured out the name of the UI desktop app yet), _nothing_ happens. Not even a error message popping up. This is, IMO, something that should be fixed, i.e. that the user needs to get some kind of response telling him that his attempt to launch the app was actually understood. 2. When launching it from the Terminal, the only message I get is "bash: ./appname: No such file or directory". Now, this is a bad error message as well. The file exists and is executable. So, the error message should be something like "required lib .. not found" or "this executable has no code for this architecture" or whatever. But not a message saying "there is no file". So, is there a chance that this gets fixed/improved without me actually having to do that (I won't, I've got other problems, thank you :) ? If so, where should I address this issue, or does this post already make it into the bug DB even, magically? BTW, I'm still stuck solving this problem, i.e. getting the right libs installed so that this app eventually launches (no, I can not build a 64 bit version of this app, just believe me), and so I installed, as a first step, the "ia32-libs". This, in fact, made the misleading error msg in Terminal go away, replaced by a similarly useless "segmentation fault" without any further info even in which context this happened, and again with no error msg when double clicking the app in Explorer. Any suggestions how I could get at least some more information so that I can figure out which other 32 bit libs are missing? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
