Re: Cinepaint in OS X Tiger didn't launch

Eric Robinson <[email protected]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:00:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.cinepaint.devel
Message-ID <C422ECF7.9556%[email protected]>
Ahh, I remember that from your site. I probably should have noticed that
before giving output from a ppc machine...


On 4/9/08 8:35 PM, "Thomas Huffman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are two reasons for these errors.
> 
> Having just checked, I see that the binary was not cross compiled to
> Tiger, and will only work with Leopard.  I've changed this in all of
> the Xcode projects, so in the future any binaries should work with
> Leopard or Tiger.
> 
> The other problem is that it won't work on PPC machines because of
> limitations in GLib and GDK regarding endianness.  I have been able to
> convert GLib over to a truely universal binary, but there are still
> drawing issues I need to work out in GDK.
> 
> It should probably be noted, that the MacintelCinepaint-0.23 binary is
> technically a universal binary, so PPC machines go ahead and try to
> run it.  It just produces undefined results.  An there is currently no
> runtime check of the hardware, so it just crashes badly.
> 
> So the short answer is that the current binary on sourceforge will
> only work on x86 Leopard machines.
> 
> laters,
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Eric Robinson wrote:
>> I blew the dust off of an old powerbook running Tiger, it would not
>> start
>> either.
>> 
>> Rather than spam the board with the crash log, you can see it at:
>> 
>> http://illmorning.com/cinepaintCrash.txt
>> 
>> I don't have the time right now to go back through the build process
>> and see
>> what might be happening (hopefully soon), but I am guessing someone
>> else
>> might.
>> 
>> 
>> Peace
>> 
>> eric
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/9/08 2:18 PM, "Robin Rowe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> It's best to post tech questions to the list where the right person
>>> can
>>> help.
>>> 
>>> Tom, is there an issue with Tiger? Can someone on Tiger follow up the
>>> bug report below?
>>> 
>>> Robin
>> 
> 
> 
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