Re: ANN: GNUstep Gui Version 0.9.4

[Alexander Malmberg]

This:

On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 05:04 AM, Adam Fedor wrote:
>   * NSScroller, NSScrollView has a new ivar.

is a fancy way of saying that the release isn't binary compatible with 
old versions.

The soname change (which is mentioned in the release notes but not the 
announcement; -base's soname was also changed recently) is probably the 
real reason for all this trouble. I'd recommend a clean reinstall of the 
core libraries (ie. remove the old versions from /System/ first) or 
weird things can happen. If weird things do happen, nuking 
/System/Library/Libraries is the first thing to do.

> On 2004-09-25 10:55:53 +0100 Riccardo <multix@ngi.it> wrote:
> > Yesterday I synced CVS on my linux/debian ppc notebook. So I suppose 
> > the changes were already committed. Compilation went happy, but all 
> > existing apps I had installed started to display big white lines right 
> > under the title bar of the window (and about of the same thinkness) 
> > and dialog boxes are affected too. The preivous installation of 
> > gnustep I had was 2-3 Months old.

This sounds like what would happen if you're using a version -gui with 
the window frame fixes together with a backend that doesn't have the 
fixes (or the other way around).

Graham J Lee wrote:
> I also had problems when updating; I did a sync on Wednesday (which only 
> updated GNUstep by around a fortnight) on my Linux machine; no app would 
> run without a recompile.  The reason seemed to be:
>
> leeg@heisenberg:~> openapp ViewPDF.app
>
> GNUSTEP Internal Error:
> The private GNUstep function to establish the argv and environment
> variables was not called.
> Please report the error to bug-gnustep@gnu.org.

And this probably means that the app is (indirectly) getting linked to 
two different versions of -base.

- Alexander Malmberg