Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Ruby-Gtkmozembed

[Frederick R. (c. <cy...@so...>]

Mirko Maischberger <mi...@li...> wrote:

> Hi, this worked on ubuntu breezy even without a wm at all.

Yes it does (work that is) I tested this on breezy as well yesterday with fluxbox and gnome.  I even tested it compiled with gcc-3.4 and gcc-4 just because breezy defaults to 4 and Gentoo to 3.4.

Althought I never thought the wm was the problem but possible the lack of the "gnome application web" or whatever they call that. Running in another wm that stuff is not up and running buy default. perhaps I should have made that more clear.

The problem happens on all my Gentoo boxes so...  I am wondering if one of the patches applied causes a problem or maybe one of the patches on breezy fixes the problem.  I mean patches to mozilla/firefox of course.  I will look into that as I have time and will also install and try this on some more distros.  The compile order firefox before the gnome upgrade with out the recompile of firefox may cause a problem too...  The possibilities are endless.  I find it still very strange it happens only with the ruby bindings and only with gnome 2.12 and so far only on gentoo.  I have tested on mutiple gentoo boxes and all have the same problem. What a mess.

Anyway at this point I can see only one significant differance between gentoo and breezy.  Breezy doesn't have mitiple processes running for the program.  On gentoo there are 5 or more processes for the program on breezy there is only the main process.  A threading impemetation differance between the two no doubt.  Anyway I think the problem is not your bindings even thought it only happens to the ruby bindings.  I will continue to try to track this down and may submit a bug report to the gentoo team after testing some more distro's.  If Gentoo were not our main developing system I would say just install another distro... but it is and is usualy a good choice.

I just need this to work so parden all the mail.  I will continue to look myself but I don't expect you to look farther since you can't reproduce it.  Thank you for your help! :-)  If I find something in the future I will drop a mail and tell you so at least you can point anyone else who might have the problem in a hopefully right direction.

Now I will stop writing.  I have done so much compiling resently I feel like my head is bobbing from watching all the text scroll.  If this email seems out of sorts pardon I have not been getting near enough sleep.

Thanks Again for all your hard work and putting up with me.

Frederick