Re: GTKmm dialogs kill Inkscape on SGI IRIX with MIPSpro

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:28:16PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
>>On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:42 -0800, Jeremy Y. Meng wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have been working on porting Inkscape to SGI IRIX platform by using
>>> MIPSpro compiler set.  Now I have an Inkscape binary that is running
>>> fine except that the instantiation of Gtkmm based dialogs generates
>>> SIGSEGV/SIGBUS immediately.
>>
>>Can you reproduce this with any of the gtkmm examples? A small test case
>>will be much easier for you to investigate.
>>
>
> GtkMM examples run fine.
>
> I tried to derive a simple dialog from Gtk::Dialog and it works
> without any problem.  However Inkscape uses a different approach to
> create dialogs (dialog factory, static create() function, etc.),  I am
> not sure.

It looks like you'll have to try to create an appropriate test case.

> On the other hand, I succesfully obtained an working Inkscape using
> GCC.  I have to build and use static libraries of glibmm, gtkmm, along
> with some other C++ libraries that are required by Inkscape.  During
> the build I saw a lot of warnings about data alignment though.

Maybe it would help to show them here.

Murray Cumming
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