[wxperl-users] Trying to get wxPerl working in Debian

[Oberholtzer,Stephen <ste...@fr...>]

Bloody hell. Why does outlook have a key combination that sends the mail
I'm working on without confirmation?
Let's try this again.

I'm trying to get wxPerl working on a Debian box, and what I thought
would be a 30-second job has begun to take a lot longer.

I downloaded Wx-0.50.tar.gz (by the way, the Downloads page links to
Wx-0.26.tar.gz). and installed the Debian package libwxgtk2.6-0, which
includes the following files:
(just in case it's important).

/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_gizmos-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_gizmos_xrc-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_gl-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_media-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_mmedia-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_ogl-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_plot-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_stc-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_svg-2.6.so.0.3.1
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0.3.1

It also has a bunch of other stuff, including the '.so.0' symlinks.

I have also installed wx2.6-headers, has all of the wxWidgets header
files in /usr/include/wx-2.6/wx (e.g. /usr/include/wx-2.6/wx/app.h)

When I get to the 'make test' part, however, I get this:

t/01_load.............dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-4
        Failed 4/4 tests, 0.00% okay
t/02_inheritance......dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/03_event............dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/04_userdata.........dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/05_timer............dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/06_loadxpm..........dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/07_overload.........dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/08_ovl_func.........dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/09_create_delete....dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/10_oor..............dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/11_twostage.........dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/12_pod..............ok
t/13_nbksizer.........dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/14_eh_die...........dubious
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/zz_distrib..........ok
Failed Test          Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
t/01_load.t             0    11     4    8 200.00%  1-4
t/02_inheritance.t      0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/03_event.t            0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/04_userdata.t         0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/05_timer.t            0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/06_loadxpm.t          0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/07_overload.t         0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/08_ovl_func.t         0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/09_create_delete.t    0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/10_oor.t              0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/11_twostage.t         0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/13_nbksizer.t         0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
t/14_eh_die.t           0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
Failed 13/15 test scripts, 13.33% okay. 4/221 subtests failed, 98.19%
okay.


Further investigation revealed this:

daemonic:~/Wx-0.50$ perl -MWx -e0 -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch
Segmentation fault

(which is what the 'wstat 11' must mean).


After much effort, I finally determined that it's dying in the
SetConstants function in Constants.xs, at this line:

   wxPli_set_const( "wxRED", "Wx::Colour", new wxColour( *wxRED ) );

At this point, wxInitializeStockObjects() must not have been called,
because wxRED is NULL.


As an added bonus, this does NOT segfault:
daemonic:~Wx-0.50$ DISPLAY=3D:0 perl -MWx -e0 -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch



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