[gtk-osx-users] Crash on big sur

[Gabriele Greco <gabrielegreco gmail com>]

Hi guys,

I found a crash on big sur of my application, that uses gtk-osx through the official build scripts and digging in the net I found the very exact problem in both gimp and inkscape (that are maybe the two biggest gtk 2 programs out there).

The problem itself is in cairo:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/5279

... reading the comments I saw that it has been fixed 1 month ago in the macOS build system of GIMP (that I suppose it's not gtk-osx-build)

because looking at

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx

... that is if I remember correctly the repository where the build system read the modulesets from I do not see the patch, I see only a refcount patch of 5 months ago on cairo:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx/-/commit/cea9f2e9e2b65f012ec299f591996507da17533f

It seems that the patch the mono guys did, and that was incorporated in cairo upstream (and the gimp build system, since there is no new cairo version with the patch) is totally different:

https://github.com/mono/bockbuild/pull/162/files

I think there is a fork in gitlab with the correct version that is:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/samm-git/gtk-osx

... should I switch building from there or do you plan to upstream those patches soon?

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Bye,
 Gabry