[Debian GNUstep maintainers] GNUstep on SPARC (yes Debian, but not only)

[Eric Heintzmann]

Gürkan Sengün wrote:

>Hello
>
>There is a problem displaying graphics on Debian GNU/Linux with GNUstep on SPARC
>(i've got an ultra2 dual-propeller-baby here) and i tried build gnustep (0.9.4) on solaris
>and i got acked the problem is the same for everybody using gcc on sparc:
>
>The fix is to set -O (optimiziation) to 0 or 1 for -gui and all the apps that are build on that machine.
>Here's the talk from #gnustep on irc.gnustep.org
>
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> #
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> # Binary and compile tools
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> #
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> CC       = gcc
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> OPTFLAG  = -O0
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> debcrap, ah :)
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> look for that in config.make inside your Makefiles dir
>21:30 < tarzeau> rebooting into solaris again to try this
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> in System/Makefiles
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> as you see I have -O0, set it to -O1
>21:30 < grey_gandalf> well, you need the same trick for debian
>21:31 < grey_gandalf> all sparc platforms are broken, linux too
>21:31 < tarzeau> oh ...
>21:31 < tarzeau> that's why some picture elements are not drawn
>21:31 < tarzeau> for example the slider button in prefs aclock doesn't show up
>21:31 < tarzeau> nor the background tile of it
>21:31 < grey_gandalf> exatly
>21:31 < grey_gandalf> all pictures are broken :)
>21:31 < tarzeau> debian IS BROKEN!
>21:31 < grey_gandalf> and most gui elements are TIFFs
>21:31 < tarzeau> file a bug!
>21:31 < grey_gandalf> well, it is more gcc and -gui
>21:32 < tarzeau> so this needs also be changed in where gnustep is installed in some Makefiles?
>21:32 < grey_gandalf> tarzeau: OpenBSD and Solaris have the same trouble, so calm down :)
>21:32 < tarzeau> in System/Makefiles installed or source?
>21:32 < grey_gandalf> installed
>21:32 < grey_gandalf> well, this is a hack I did
>21:32 < tarzeau> only there? and also recompile gnustep-gui?
>21:32 < grey_gandalf> I know there is a way to compile a with -O
>21:32 < grey_gandalf> sure your goal is to recompile -gui without opìtimizations !
>21:33 < grey_gandalf> how you accomplish tht varies
>21:33 < grey_gandalf> ask Deek or someone
>21:33 < grey_gandalf> there is a way to run make with -O0 directly without fiddling makefiles
>
>Regards,
>Gürkan
>
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we can use one of these flags when compiling on sparc:

make OBJCFLAGS="-O0"  (only for objc files)
make CFLAGS="-O0"         (only for c files)
make OPTFLAG="-O0"      (c and objc files)

we can also modify these flags in config.make, but it implies that all 
gnustep apps including gnustep-base will be compiled on sparc with -O0.

Is this problem specific to gnustep-gui 0.9.4 ?
Do you think it's better to use -O0 or -O1 ?

    Eric