Re: error when compiling xemacs-gtk

Jeff, I'm having trouble on the Mac. I do have GTK+ 2.24.22, and I get a build and the automatic test suite runs OK. But as soon as I try to run it with the GUI, it crashes: (gdb) run -vanilla Starting program: /Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/xemacs-gtk/+build/src/xemacs -vanilla Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-vyVDPM/org.x:0". Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000001018e68d6 in g_type_fundamental () from /opt/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib (gdb) bt 5 #0 0x00000001018e68d6 in g_type_fundamental () from /opt/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib #1 0x00000001018d88b4 in g_object_new () from /opt/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib #2 0x00000001001b4ba6 in gtk_xemacs_new (f=0x0) at /Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/xemacs-gtk/src/gtk-xemacs.c:123 #3 0x000000010018f4fa in gtk_init_device (d=0x1022359b0, unused_props=...) at /Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/xemacs-gtk/src/device-gtk.c:272 #4 0x0000000100077e7e in Fmake_device (type=..., connection=..., props=...) at /Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/xemacs-gtk/src/device.c:662 (More stack frames follow...) (gdb) quit The warning about the RANDR extension happens with most X programs (I think I have an old Xquartz server or something). I doubt it's relevant but I include it for completeness. If you haven't seen anything like this crash, don't spend too much time on it. It looks like it's deep in libgobject. I have checked the libraries, and all of them except the basic libc come from MacPorts, which is up to date so they should be consistent. However, my version of Mac OS X is old (Snow Leopard) and I think my most recent updates to GTK and friends were binary packages -- it's possible that the MacPorts maintainers are assuming Lion or more recent.

I also have a patch that fixes the pkg-config version detection bogosity (I guess use of --version is left over from the days when gtk-config was distributed with GTK+, now it refers to the version of pkg-config d'oh :-). I did check for other uses of pkg-config --version, there weren't any.