bugGNUstep - Bugs: bug #10819, 0.9.4 display problems

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bug #10819: 0.9.4 display problems

Submitter:  MJR <slef>
Submitted:  Thu 28 Oct 2004 09:55:14 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Gui/AppKit Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Bug Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 13 Jan 2005 07:48:11 PM UTC, comment #4: 

That is a bit unexpected, but -base's soname changed around the same time, and things can get messy quickly when you have a bunch of libraries linked to different versions of themselves. :/ Comments about binary compatibility noted; this soname change was rather disruptive, so I think we'll want to do things differently in the future.

Alexander Malmberg <alexm>
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Thu 13 Jan 2005 02:34:17 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Recompiling applications did not fix this for them. I really was not keen on recompiling all applications. Asking users to do so with every patchlevel number change seems rather hostile to them. If the new release is incompatible, please increase the second digit so that we can plan our upgrades.

Upgrading to -base 1.10.1 seems to have fixed it. I really don't understand why. I did notice the installation of base grumble about .so filenames having changed and remove some links. Apologies for not logging it, but I wasn't expecting -base to affect this.


MJR <slef>
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Thu 13 Jan 2005 01:54:06 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Just to confirm before I close this:

Did recompiling everything fix this? Clearing out the old installation is also a good idea before reinstalling is also a good idea.

(There were a couple of issues like this around 0.9.4's release. I had changed the window frame handling code a bunch, and it only worked properly if you had matching versions of -gui and -back. At almost the same time, Adam changed the soname/version of -gui. Thus, even if you reinstalled both -back and -gui, apps would still be linked to the old -gui (with the previous soname), but they'd use the new, slightly incompatible backend.

FWIW, there's a long-term TODO about versioning the backend to make soname changes less painful in the future.)

Alexander Malmberg <alexm>
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Tue 23 Nov 2004 07:31:20 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The author of this bug report shoudl first recompile the full GNUstep environment including the applications for 0.9.4 from scratch. Only if this strange behaviour keeps on showing up after this, it really is a bug (not just an incompatible change). All similar problems that have been reported on the list after the release change could be resolved that way.

Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer>
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Thu 28 Oct 2004 09:55:14 AM UTC, original submission:  

After upgrading to 0.9.4, windows of most applications have either a "dead" strip of white immediately below the title bar (Terminal, Ink, GWorkspace) on windows opened after the application starts. Mostly the first windows are fine, but GNUMail has a bit of corrupted display in that area in its first window. This did not happen with 0.9.3. I have not recompiled applications against 0.9.4 yet.

MJR <slef>
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