RE: GTK & BSD
Ron Tarrant wrote:
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> irv mullins wrote:
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> > Good. It seems that Linux is far more lax about some things (or, if
> > you prefer, handles them more intelligently :)
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> Ah, a subtle dig at my favourite OS. Arr, matie! Avast! 
It depends, I guess, on whether being lax is unsafe or not.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough to be able to even guess about that.
> 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:
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> (<unknown>:2539): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 260
> (gdk_pixbuf_new): assertion `bits_per_sample == 8' failed
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> 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.
Perhaps the shared library doesn't match the source code.
As in: was compiled from a different version, or something was
changed after the compile?
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> Aw, don't give up on it just yet, Irv. There's always GTK 3, 4, 5 ...
Actually, that's what worries me.
Irv
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