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

[Eric Heintzmann]

On 2004-04-25 05:19:00 +0200 Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> wrote:

> 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.
Since I have not an acces to an arm machine, I cannot send you a 
backtrace. :(
But maybe this message from Evan Prodromou can help you:

It looks to me like the build is failing when trying to make the
APP_INFO_PROP_LIST. application.make has a call to plmerge here, and
looking at other buildd output, it seems to throw an occasional hissy
fit when it can't write to the user's home dir, from somewhere at
NSUserDefaults.m.

Any suggestions? Just ride it out? It'd be nice to have an up-to-date
Gorm in sarge.

~ESP

----

P.S.
-I already applied Richard's patches on NSUserDefault.m (related to 
home dir not writable).
-Nearly all recent gnustep apps cannot enter sarge because of these 
build-failures on arm.

        Eric