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[gtk-list] Problems on alpha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk)
Fri May 23 17:44:40 1997
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Date: Fri, 23 May 97 22:45:25 +0100
From: dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk
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I've just tried to compile the GIMP on our DEC Alpha workstations, running
OSF/1, and have come across a few problems in the GTK distribution. These led
to the GIMP seg faulting on start-up, which I think qualifies as A Bug.
Anyway, the problems, and the fixes:
In gdk/gdkfont.c:gdk_char_width(), the second parameter is a gchar, which is
signed.
In gtk/gtktext.c:get_text_font(), this is called in a loop from 0 to 255. The
parameter is cast to a char before being passed in. No prizes as to what
happens.
Changing the cast in get_text_font(), the parameter in gdk_char_width(), and
the associated header files to guchar instead of gchar and char (what's a char
doing there?) fixes it. GIMP works (and is impressive. Oh, for a 24-bit
display!).
A probably associated problem, not really relevant to this list but I'm here
so I may as well mention it, is that the GIMP only works if I *don't* strip
the binary. Seeing as it's 12MB (that's even bigger than Netscape!), it would
be nice to be able to cut it down a bit... any ideas?
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