Re: Gnustep on alpha linux

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 11:22  pm, Andrew Maier wrote:

> Has anyone got Gnustep running on alpha linux (Debian in my case). I
> have followed the instructions for compiling Gnustep and have installed
> gnustep-make, gnustep-base, gnustep-gui and gnustep-back. It all
> compiles (using gcc-3.2.2), albeit with a lot of warnigs which are  
> probably
> due to the 64bit nature of the alpha.

I had the basic stuff working a few years ago ... but it's highly  
likely that some
64bit/byte ordering problems have crept in ... to the best of my  
knowledge
nobody else has done anything on alpha.

> But as soon as I start to start an application (e.g. GWorkspace) I get
> the following:
>
>
> $ openapp GWorkspace
> /home/andrew/gnustep/GWorkspace/GWorkspace.app/alpha/linux-gnu/gnu- 
> gnu-gnu/GWorkspace: Uncaught exception  
> NSInternalInconsistencyException, reason: extra
>  object crossref - 256
>
>
> Does anyone know what this means???

Sounds like a bug in unarchiving something ... perhaps a Gorm file?

You will probably need to build everything with debug and track down
what's going on using gdb or similar.