Re: [bug #17503] Windows doesn't open up when compiled with debug off in SVN version

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Aug 2006, at 05:46, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

> On 2006-08-23 00:34:46 -0400 Gregory John Casamento
> <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I just not built everything as non-debug on my P3/700 laptop running
> > SuSE 9.3
> > w/ gcc 3.3.5.   It works fine.  Gorm comes up properly.
>
> GORM comes up properly for me too, but if I try to create something
> new or open a GORM file, nothing comes up. The strange thing is, if I
> build a debug version and start GORM with either:
>
>         debugapp Gorm.debug
>
> or
>
>         openapp Gorm.debug
>
> everything works fine. I am at a lost...

Just FYI ... having debug and non-debug code on the same system tends  
to be problematic because unless you are very careful, after a while  
you end up accidentally doing something such that library and bundle  
inter-dependencies cause both a debug and a non-debug version of the  
same library to get linked into something.  This can cause strange  
crashes and/or failure to load bundles and dynamic libraries.
It sounds like this might be your problem.
When this happens, my solution is to delete *every* library/binary  
and do a clean rebuild ... that's usually quicker/easier than pinning  
down the exact problem and replacing only the binaries actually  
causing the trouble.

I'd really like to scrap the separation of debug/non-debug libraries  
in the make system, as I think it causes more trouble than it's worth.