Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] ekiga for openmoko

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Luca Capello a écrit :
> Hi there!
>
> On Sun, 17 May 2009 22:36:03 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> > OTOH, the last time I tried it (in August 2008 at DebConf8) I was not
> > able to make/receive any call and since then I just gave up.
>
> I tried again, here the results...
>
>
> 1) Ekiga requires too much disk space:
> =====
> debian-gta02:~# apt-get install ekiga
> [...]
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   ekiga evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common gvfs
>   libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libcamel1.2-14 libcelt0
>   libebackend1.2-0 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2
>   libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-11 libegroupwise1.2-13
>   libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common
>   libgweather-common libgweather1 libical0 libltdl7 libnspr4-0d
>   libnss3-1d libopal3.6.1 libproxy0 libpt2.6.1 libpt2.6.1-plugins-alsa
>   libpt2.6.1-plugins-v4l2 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libv4l-0 odbcinst1debian1
>   unixodbc
> 0 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 34.8MB of archives.
> After this operation, 75.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
> [...]
>
> debian-gta02:~# dpkg -s ekiga | grep Version
> Version: 3.2.1~git20090515.9d0263-1
>
> debian-gta02:~#
> =====
>
>    I would like a minimal version with no GNOME libraries (Bonobo &
>    Co.), just Opal, PTlib and the minimum required GTK+, full stop.  May
>    I remind you that the Openmoko GTA02 Neo FreeRunner has 256MB of
>    flash?  :-(

It *is* possible to disable the evolution support -- it looks like it's 
the culprit behind most of the deps.

> 3) I can register to ekiga.net and call the echo test at 500 ekiga net,
>    the echo voice starts instructing me but then ekiga segfault:
> =====
> debian-gta02:~# DISPLAY=:0.0 gdb ekiga
> GNU gdb 6.8-debian
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "arm-linux-gnueabi"...

> (ekiga:2467): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
> The program 'ekiga' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>   (Details: serial 34 error_code 8 request_code 139 minor_code 3)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> [New Thread 0x4339e410 (LWP 2494)]

It looks like a threading issue, but I can't tell more.

> It is better than August 2008, but not yet perfect ;-)

It would be interesting to get it going. Is there an easy way for a 
debian user to install a good ARM virtual machine on a ix86 computer? 
[and to cross-compile ekiga for testing?]

Snark