Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] "Floating exception"

[Pete S. <pst...@ve...>]

PS = Pete Stieber On 2 April 2008 at 7:54
PS>> Last night I loaded Mandriva 2008.0 and all of the
PS>> required development tools on an extra 80 GB HD I
PS>> had lying around.  I have been making changes to
PS>> the configuration startup code.

KC = Kevin Cosgrove
KC> Cool.  Thanks for taking that extra step!

PS>> I'm going to modify my wxWidgets build instructions on
PS>> the web site to make sure the Jazz++ custom build and
PS>> install of wxWidgets doesn't conflict with any
PS>> "standard" version already loaded by the OS.
PS>>
PS>> I'm also going to add Jazz++ build and install
PS>> instructions so developers do not use the jazz.cfg file
PS>> under the development directories.  This causes problems
PS>> because the code frequently rewrites the jazz.cfg file
PS>> and if you update using svn there will be conflicts
PS>> that cause problems in Jazz++ on successive startups.

KC> When that's done, would you please let me know?  I have
KC> two Mandriva 2008.0 systems (both laptops with smallish
KC> hard drives) and two Mandriva 2007.0 systems (both
KC> quieted towers, one dual-core for music uses).  I don't
KC> usually build code on the 2008.0 machines, but I'll
KC> be happy to test Jazz++ on one of them in order to get
KC> to the bottom of the floating exception issue.

PS>> I'm happy to report I successfully built and installed
PS>> wxWidgets 2.8.7 and built, installed, and ran the
PS>> current trunk version of Jazz++ on the Mandriva box.
PS>> No floating-point exception :-)

KC> Yeehah!

PS>> There is a problem when I play a midi file and exit
PS>> Jazz++.  It leaves the jazz process running and the
PS>> only way I can kill it is to reboot :-(

KC> Well now, that's not playing nice, is it?  ;-)

PS>> I'll have to look into that.

KC> Great.  When I get something built over here, I'll
KC> see if I can duplicate the trouble.

PS>> Let me Know how it's going,

KC> I had been stalled out on the floating exception issue.
KC> Now I have a reason to look again.  Let me know when
KC> the docs are ready and I'll fire up a laptop to try it.

There is a preliminary version of the updated instructions in place.  I 
separated the wxWidgets build page from the Jazz++ build page.  The 
wxWidgets build instructions are modified, and the Jazz++ build page is 
new and incomplete (Windows instructions are not included).  There 
should be enough there to get you started.  I just wanted to make sure...

1. That the wxWidgets install does not conflict with any OS installed 
version.
2. That you don't use the jazz.cfg file under the checked out code.

Make sure you erase $HOME/.jazz before you run the code after your rebuild.

I'm sure there are errors in the instructions I just slapped together. 
If you could post the error reports here, that would be great.

Sorry I didn't install Mandriva 2007.

Thanks for the help!
Pete