re: glib error in solaris 9 (and 8)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:56, Scott Weil wrote:
> Has anyone got an answer for this one?  Im having the same problem with
> Solaris 8 (sparc).  When I run a make check the strfunc-test fails.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106091

Not really a cause for concern.

> Original post:
> *	From: Ben Taylor <highlander7 cox net> 
> *	To: gtk-list gnome org 
> *	Subject: glib error in solaris 9 
> *	Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:46:01 -0500 
> 
>   
> I'm in the process of testing Gnome 2.2 on Solaris 8 and 9 (X86) and 
> I've run into a problem.
> 
> I've run a make check on both OS's, and i'm getting different results:
> 
> Solaris 8/X86 (gcc-3.2.1, sun ld and as)  - 1 test failure:
> 
> (strfunc-test.c:449) failed for: 3 == g_snprintf (buf, 0, "%s", "abc")
> (strfunc-test.c:450) failed for: 3 == g_snprintf (NULL,0, "%s", "abc")
> FAIL: strfunc-test
> PASS: string-test
> 
> However, I'm getting 2 test failures on
> Solaris 9/X86 (gcc-3.2.1, sun ld and as)
> 
> (strfunc-test.c:449) failed for: 3 == g_snprintf (buf, 0, "%s", "abc")
> (strfunc-test.c:450) failed for: 3 == g_snprintf (NULL,0, "%s", "abc")
> FAIL: strfunc-test
> FAIL: string-test
> 
> I'm not sure what's wrong, as string-test just core's out, and I've got 
> to build gdb to
> debug it, however, using the same code base, I can get Gnome-2.2 to come 
> up on
> Solaris 8, and it crashes out with a glib core (the description from the 
> core file)
> on Solaris 9.

Might well be related to the string test failure; but without a debugger
backtrace, it's hard to say anything. (Debugging with printf insertion
could be done as well, but debuggers are useful critters to have
around.)

Regards,
						Owen