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RE: GTK & BSD

• Posted by Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca> May 13, 2004
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irv mullins wrote:

> Good. It seems that Linux is far more lax about some things (or, if 
> you prefer, handles them more intelligently :)

Ah, a subtle dig at my favourite OS. Arr, matie! Avast! 

But on the other hand, I think it's the 0.22.0 version of gdk-pixbuf 
(the latest available for FreeBSD) that's at fault here. I ran a number 
of the samples from the command line, and they all threw this message:

(<unknown>:2539): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 260 
(gdk_pixbuf_new): assertion `bits_per_sample == 8' failed

The first part (<unknown>:2539) doesn't always have the same number and 
I'm not sure yet what to make of that yet. The other interesting thing 
about this error is that it claims to be a problem with line 260 of 
gdk-pixbuf.c when in fact the error is thrown from line 170. Line 260 is 
dead-smack in the middle of a multi-line comment. I'm still looking into 
why 8 bits per sample is such a big deal for GDK.

And as for Linux, it _does_ get all the press which just means we BSDers 
get to have more fun making things work. 

> than BSD, when it comes 
> to calls to shared libraries. GTK on Windows falls somewhere between the 
> 
> two. I'll keep that in mind when (and if) I do another version.

Aw, don't give up on it just yet, Irv. There's always GTK 3, 4, 5 ...

Anyway, thanks for sharing the journey so far.

-Ron T.