I looked through your configuration and make files and cannot see any problem there. Sorry, but now I am totally clueless.
No idea, where this problem might come from.

I add the output of the ./configure --enable-graphics=art and the stdout and stderr of the make run.


(file #17047, file #17048, file #17049)

the freetype lib has 6.3.16 (system is GNU/Linux mandriva 2008.0, but after this bug, I've updated freetype, cairo, xft, glibc and some more thing I can't remember ---it did it automatically---, from mandriva 2008.1); but .la file says:

# Version information for libfreetype.
current=9
age=3
revision=16

is this an issue? (current!=6 ?i suppose i should study better what that numbers exactly mean for libtool)

all the output is almost nothing (see attached file); I suppose XIM is not an issue.

Since the previous post, I've did some more test and noticed that even though cairo backend works, it seems not to compute rightly something and the lower part of the window is a dark stripe (to me, it seems it does not consider the title bar, but shouldn't this be a window manager task?)

As last resort I've tried the xlib backend, and it both works and (until now:D) has no graphical issue (but I had a seg. fault testing one of the app in the gnustep-example package)

One thing per step. The application is rather small, as said before I've taken it from gnustep.it, but I attach it too and another app source I've tried and that rise the same problem (access the alert using NSAlert)

(file #17024, file #17025, file #17026)

I am new to all this stuff, hope It's ok this kind of bug report (I've searche for problems with font, found things that seemed different to this issue)...

Today I've downloaded from http://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html all the needed sources and compiled it. Everything ok. So the versions are: back 0.14, base 1.16.5, gui 0.14, make 2.0.6. I've left all configure option to their defaults.

Then I tried to compile the example found here:
http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/WritingMakefiles/index.html

Everything went fine, make did its job...

But when I runned the app, obtained a segmentation fault. Running it with openapp --debug option, I've run it in gdb. The seg.fault was into FT_New_Size of the freetype lib. I thought it was of freetype bug... I updated it ...

To make it shorter, I recompiled several type gnustep-gui and base and back after updating zlib, xft and cairo. Then I decided to read it carefully the configure output untill I noticed that, even though the configure script for gnustep-back recognized the cairo lib, and the end it used art (2.3.19). A look at configure options, and recompiled gnustep-back with --enable-graphics=cairo.

The app runned.

So I suppose there's a bug in the art backend (could it be an art bug?). The backtrace from gdb is attached.

I hope this can help killing a bug.