OS X/Intel Mac Update (Success!)

[David Reiser]

On Aug 7, 2006, at 11:44 PM, Kevin Foss wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Inspired by some comments on the darwinports list about bugs in
> libgnomecanvas and Intel Macs, I tried recompiling libgnomecanvas and
> can now successfully open registers and enter transactions in GnuCash
> on my Dual Core iMac.
>
> The darwinports email is here: http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/
> gnome-darwinports/2006-July/000823.html
>
> The 'fix' is to recompile libgnomecanvas at optimization level -
> O1.    I adjusted fink's .info file for libgnomecanvas2 accordingly,
> rebuilt and installed the debs, and installed gnucash 2.0.1 from the
> tarball using the wiki instructions for OS X.
>
> Seems to work fine -- registers, reports, etc., and I'm impressed
> with the speed on this machine.
>
> It is still a bit of a work around and it's unclear to me if this is
> a gcc bug (as suggested in the email referenced above) or what... but
> it works!
>
Well the Fink-folk have deemed it an adequate fix -- the  
libgnomecanvas2 packaging file was updated tonight to include the  
change.

The person working on the gnucash packaging file has tested several  
other optimization settings, and it looks like several of the common  
ones, including the one recommended (in general) by Apple produce  
broken binaries with Intel Macs. -O1 works with libgnomecanvas2, so  
it's in. The new libgnomecanvas2.info has also bumped the version of  
glib2 needed to 2.12.0, but that's already in fink  10.4 unstable  
along with the new libgnomecanvas2.

Thanks for figuring this one out.


> -Kevin
>
Dave
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David Reiser
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