Thank you (and Sebastian) for the explanation. I got a wrong impression from the original back trace. I will look into this issue after the weekend.
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 06 May 2011 01:43:17 +0200 > Von: Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> > An: Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: fix for startup of AClock > Hi Fred, > > I cleaned up some of the old apps that way, but only recently discovered > that the apps do not start up at all if written that way. Sebastian > essentially confirms this. > > Even if the fix is quite simple, I don't understand why it broke. It > doesn't work for me on plain 32biit x86 and sparc on linux or NetBSD > iwth the gcc runtime. Thus it is not at all libobjc2 or clang. > > Riccardo > > Fred Kiefer wrote: > > All these patches are nice and fine and should be applied. But there > > seems to be an underlying issue with libobjc2 that should be fixed as > > well. The old code is sub-optimal but I cannot see an obvious bug in > > it, it should actually work. And if it doesn't then it is the runtime > > that is at fault here. > > > > David, could you please look into this? And if it isn't the runtime > > that is wrong here, please explain why the old code was wrong. We or > > at least I could learn a bit more about the details of Objective-C here. > > > > On 05.05.2011 16:39, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > >> attached a similar fix to get AClock from gap CVS to start up. > >> Actually the same as for LapisPuzzle. > >> Further the URL in the Info... window points to a nonexistent host, > >> but since there is no special page on GAP for it (yet) I did not > >> updated it too. > >> Anyone knows what this playsound binary is, which is used to play the > >> sounds? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
