Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems
I just can't understand this. I'm the maintainer of libgtk, the GIMP toolkit, which is the widget set for The GIMP and Gnome and other nice X programs. Ever since gtk+971109, however, I've been running into a problem that nobody who isn't running Debian has been running into. libgtk *compiles* fine, but when I run a program that uses it, the fields where you enter text into only display bizarre characters -- which change from version to version. For instance, when trying to get gtk+971201 to work, I only got blank characters when typing. When trying gtk+971208, I only got capital Os with umlauts. When trying the latest gtk+, 0.99.0, I only get capital As with umlauts. I tried the latest version from their CVS repositories and only get lower-case 'x's. Other Debian folks have run into this when compiling libgtk, and this has happened to me now on *three* separate Debian-running computers, so I don't think it's a hardware problem. I'm 100 percent up-to-date with hamm. I've tried libc 2.0.5c. I've tried 2.0.6pre3. I've tried 2.0.6pre4. I've tried re-working my debian/rules (which worked fine with gtk+971109) to use the make install provided in the gtk+ Makefile along with debhelper instead of my semi-kluged bash-package-style moving files into separate debian/tmp-blah directories. Is it just me? Can anyone else try compiling with the .dsc/.diff.gz/.orig.tar.gz at http://everybody.got.net/~che/gtk/ for me, and see if I'm just nuts? I've been struggling with this for *weeks* now. Here's some related version numbers of packages, if it matters: ii gcc 2.7.2.3-3 The GNU C compiler. ii ldso1.9.6-2The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit ii libc6 2.0.5c-0.1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libc6-dev 2.0.5c-0.1 The GNU C library version 2 (development fil ii xlib6g 3.3.1-2Shared libraries required by X clients ii xlib6g-dev 3.3.1-2Include files and libraries for X client dev -- Brought to you by the letters X and R and the number 6. Someday, we will be. For it has already begun. -- Akira Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems
A quick followup: Someone on the GIMP IRC network recently reported the *exact* same problem with certain gtk versions. But they're running SuSE 4.4.1, very tweaked. Now I don't think the problem is Debian-specific. (I had hoped it wasn't :) -- Brought to you by the letters F and Q and the number 3. Egad! A base tone denotes a bad age. -- TMBG Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems
On 15 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: libgtk *compiles* fine, but when I run a program that uses it, the fields where you enter text into only display bizarre characters -- which change from version to version. For instance, when trying to get gtk+971201 to work, I only got blank characters when typing. When trying gtk+971208, I only got capital Os with umlauts. When trying the latest gtk+, 0.99.0, I only get capital As with umlauts. I tried the latest version from their CVS repositories and only get lower-case 'x's. I gave up on 971208... funny thing is I also got Ö's. Other Debian folks have run into this when compiling libgtk, and this has happened to me now on *three* separate Debian-running computers, so I don't think it's a hardware problem. Not it's definitely not. I thought it could be the extension to get iso-8859-1 characters. I tryed every combination available on the configure script, but no luck. I'm 100 percent up-to-date with hamm. I've tried libc 2.0.5c. I've tried 2.0.6pre3. I've tried 2.0.6pre4. I've tried re-working my debian/rules (which worked fine with gtk+971109) to use the make install provided in the gtk+ Makefile along with debhelper instead of my semi-kluged bash-package-style moving files into separate debian/tmp-blah directories. I even compiled and installed it straight from the distribution... Can anyone else try compiling with the .dsc/.diff.gz/.orig.tar.gz at http://everybody.got.net/~che/gtk/ for me, and see if I'm just nuts? I've been struggling with this for *weeks* now. I didn't try that hard... but I got the same problems. I tried just after you pointed out the problem when I asked in debian-user. The last known-to-work version was somewhere arround late november, I can't recall which one. I hoped I could find time the last weekend to go thru the diffs between those two versions, but they are not trivial. In the office next door, a guy has a much hated (by me -- open mindness and all ;) RH box, I think it is 4.2. I was asked him to compile the thing and see what happens (to check which and what library is the problem against), but he's a little paranoid and won't do it. I'll see if I can get something tonight. Can you ask in the gtk list, where it seems to work for most people according to you, which libraries and what versions are they using? (a listing from */lib and /etc/ld.conf would help, I think) later, Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems
It doesn't happen on my laptop running Debian 1.3 or my SGI running IRIX. I bet it's a GLIBC 2.0 interaction. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
