Re: Is this meant to happen? (was Re: commit: AbiWord is now a Nautilus View.

[Martin Sevior <msevior physics unimelb edu au>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Martin Sevior wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> > Hi Martin,
> > 
> > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 18:19, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > > 	Thanks VERY much for this tip.
> > 
> > 	I think there are probably two problems here; firstly, nautilus is not
> > de-merging all the menus when it's finished with the control - it should
> > be sending a de-activate signal of some sort - which is a long-running
> > problem.
> > 
> > 	Secindly though - it's likely that you're leaking a BonoboObject
> > reference count. ie. not a GObject reference.
> > 
> > 	It's worth reading libbonobo/doc/refcounting.txt to see what that
> > means. To track referencing problems it's perhaps best to re-build
> > libbonobo with --enable-debug=yes, and then:
> > 
> > 	export BONOBO_DEBUG=refs
> > 
> > 	and run your abiword component from the console.
> > 
> > 	Often that _can_ help get some idea for the sequence that refs are
> > happening in on your object.
> 
> Ah thanks for the further clues. I'll try this sort of thing. That doc 
> wasn't in libbonobo-2.0.1.tar.gz which was what I was using for a source 
> code reference.

OK this is harder than I thought. Firstly there is no public way to access 
the agregate object reference count. So as a first step to debugging I 
tried to compile bonobo but after a flawless ./autogen and ./configure I 
typed "make" and got...

e/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include 
-I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2      -g -O2 
-MT Bonobo-imodule.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/Bonobo-imodule.Tpo" \
  -c -o Bonobo-imodule.lo `test -f 'Bonobo-imodule.c' || echo 
'./'`Bonobo-imodule.c; \
then mv ".deps/Bonobo-imodule.Tpo" ".deps/Bonobo-imodule.Plo"; \
else rm -f ".deps/Bonobo-imodule.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
../libtool: line 1: s%^.*/%%: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
 etc, etc 


libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
: compile: cannot determine name of library object from `'
make[2]: *** [Bonobo-imodule.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/msevior/abidir/gnome-cvs/libbonobo/idl'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

This is CVS libbonobo.
Since I can't compile libbonobo I'll take you up on your offer to solve 
the problem for me :-)

Look at:

http://www.abisource.com/lxr/source/abi/src/wp/ap/unix/ap_unixApp?v=1.217

Lines 1595 -2140 are relevant to the bonobo interface - though some is
dormant code waiting for the bonobo::print interface to be revived.

I'm sure a lot of it will look familar..

Thanks!

Martin