Re: [Gnash] gnash testing

[Jens Petersen]

Rob Savoye wrote:
> Jens Petersen wrote:
>
> > I didn't manage to get a backtrace with gdb, perhaps it is crashing 
> > before there is a stack.
>
>   Are you running a debug build of Firefox, and then starting it with -g 
> ".

No, I'm running /usr/bin/gnash. :)

> With Gnash, you can also invoke the Flash movie and add 
> "?waitforgdb=yes", and the plugin will block in the very being of it's 
> initialization. Then you can attach GDB, and set breakpoints in that 
> instance.

Sorry, where does one add that?

>   On FC4, I've had problems with ATK, of all things. GTK+ has been a bit 
> of a moving target lately, so my gut feeling is this would be an issue 
> with one of the dependent libraries.

Ok - FC5 moved to gtk 2.8 with cairo too, so....

>   The polling loop continues after playing to handle events. This will 
> go away after the alpha release, cause I'm going to rewrite the event 
> handling to be more portable and handle conditions it was never designed 
> for.

Ok. :)

> > I haven't managed to get the plugin working properly in firefox.
> > Currently in FC4 it just seem to display the initial flash file 
> > background, but then nothing happens.  (In FC5 the plugin crashes 
> > firefox as soon as it tries to render some flash.)  I haven't tried i386.
>
>    Hum, on my i386 FC4 laptop, it works just fine.

Ok, I'll try again on i386.

>   I'm not a fan of using pkg-config, as it doesn't exist on any 
> non-GNU/Linux system, and many people don't even have this installed it 
> turns out. So at one point I rewrote the configure tests for Gnash to do 
> my own searching and not use pkg-config. So if you are having a 
> configure problem, I'd prefer to fix my test, and no[t] add a dependency 
> for pkg-config.

Ok, I quite like pkgconfig myself, but as long as configure works I'm 
not too fussy. ;-)  Let me get back to you on where the current 
configure breaks for me.

>   I merged in a few of your spec file changes with the other patch I got 
> for the spec file. I'll check this after I do a little RPM building 
> testing.

Thanks,

Jens