[swarm-hackers] fedora 11, tcl/tk 8.5

[Paul Johnson]

Users on sw-support asked about F11 and so I installed it.

The good news appears to be that the Fedora maintainers  have done the 
work to patch blt so it works with tcl/tk 8.5.  That's awesome. I think 
that because the blt demos now work.

On the other hand, swarm runs in GUI mode still end in crash land:

$ ./heatbugs
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  151 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  4 (RenderCreatePicture)
  Serial number of failed request:  3758
  Current serial number in output stream:  3764

Historically, my experience is that some things in Swarm are easy to 
fix, but time consuming.  They requiring some tedious editing of the 
code (as when I made some changes to suit gcc's objective-c 
complaining).  If one of you will give me a hint what is needed, I can 
try to do it.

On the other hand, if fixing this is going to be like fixing the 
activity library (Vladimir!) or  adapting Swarm to Gnustep (Scott!), 
hell, why don't we just dump tcl/tk altogether and learn to compile 
Swarm with Scott's setup.

Obviously, I've got to get the debug packages installed so I can debug 
this further. I'm just asking now to find out where you stand.


$ gdb ./heatbugs
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 27, in <module>
ImportError: No module named os.path
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(gdb) run
Starting program: 
/home/pauljohn32/Download/swarmapps-objc-2.2-2/heatbugs/heatbugs
warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libz.so.1" is not at the expected 
address
warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations
warning: .dynamic section for "/usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1" is not at the 
expected address
warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations
warning: .dynamic section for "/usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3" is not at the 
expected address
warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  151 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  4 (RenderCreatePicture)
  Serial number of failed request:  2728
  Current serial number in output stream:  2734

Program exited with code 01.
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install 
blt-2.4-30.z.fc11.i586 expat-2.0.1-6.i586 
fontconfig-2.6.99.behdad.20090508-1.fc11.i586 freetype-2.3.9-3.fc11.i586 
glibc-2.10.1-2.i686 hdf5-1.8.3-1.fc11.i586 libX11-1.2.1-2.fc11.i586 
libXau-1.0.4-5.fc11.i586 libXcursor-1.1.9-4.fc11.i586 
libXfixes-4.0.3-5.fc11.i586 libXft-2.1.13-2.fc11.i586 
libXpm-3.5.7-5.fc11.i586 libXrender-0.9.4-5.fc11.i586 
libpng-1.2.37-1.fc11.i586 libxcb-1.2-4.fc11.i586 
swarm-2.2.5-2F11kups.i586 tcl-8.5.6-6.fc11.i586 tk-8.5.6-4.fc11.i586 
zlib-1.2.3-22.fc11.i586
(gdb) bt
No stack.
(gdb)