On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 05:38:57AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone else noticed any problems with current pkgsrc (a few days old)
> > and gnome ? I installed 1.6RC1 on an Alpha and started compiling gnome-core.
> > The compilation went without a hitch but gnome-session refuses to work,
> > no core dumps but I don't get the gnome panel or anything else for that
> > matter (well, the "tip of the day" works).
> >
> > Probably related is that galeon refuses to start up, complains about
> > non-working gconf.
> 
> I'm running 1.5.3 built gnome, including GConf-1.0.9nb1, on 1.6_RC1. I
> just rebuilt GConf to be sure, and still don't see the problem.
>

I'm tempted to throw away gnome but I digress.

I rebuilt everything related to gnome yesterday, from a fresh pkgsrc and
the same problems. No galeon, no gnome. 

I fooled around with ddd and ktrace for a while and commenting out
--enable-hard-syscall from devel/pth/Makefile seemed to do the trick.
Now I've got gnome and friends working just fine. Interestingly "make test"
in devel/pth/work/pth* completes without errors with or without
--enable-hard-syscall.

This is on Alphastation 500/500 (21164) and 1.6RC1.

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jht