Re: Debian: Cannot autobuild gnustep apps on all architectures.

[Adam Fedor]

On Apr 18, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Eric Heintzmann wrote:

>         Hi,
> When the gnustep apps are autobuilt by the official debian build 
> system, we obtain sometimes build failures on some architectures 
> (currently only on arm). It seems to be an issue with 
> Info-gnustep.plist files. But I can't reproduce the bug on my i386.
>
> Here logs for gworkspace on arm :
>
> [...]
> echo "OLD_GNUSTEP_STAMP_ASTRING = _GWorkspace-FileManager.tiff--" > 
> ./GWorkspace.app/stamp.make
> (echo "{"; echo '  NOTE = "Automatically generated, do not edit!";'; \
>   echo "  NSExecutable = \"GWorkspace\";"; \
>   echo "  NSMainNibFile = \"\";"; \
>   echo "  GSMainMarkupFile = \"\";"; \
>   if [ "FileManager.tiff" != "" ]; then \
>     echo "  NSIcon = \"FileManager.tiff\";"; \
>   fi; \
>   echo "  NSPrincipalClass = \"GWorkspace\";"; \
>   echo "}") >GWorkspace.app/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist
> if [ -r "GWorkspaceInfo.plist" ]; then \
>    plmerge GWorkspace.app/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist 
> "GWorkspaceInfo.plist"; \
>   fi

It seems likely that the plmerge program is crashing for some reason, 
but I don't know why.  I think it would be hard to fix without a 
backtrace of it crashing.