Windows nightly builds have not successfully run since r19570

[Derek Atkins]

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> Am Monday 27 September 2010 schrieb Kim Wood:
>> Dear Devs,
>> 
>> Have just tried r19614 - failed - windows nightly build r19570 was the last
>> build to run successfully on my Windows 7 system.  MS Windows Home Premium
>> 32 bit.
>> 
>> The failure mode is --> While loading user data, box pops up displaying
>> "gnucash.exe has stopped working.
>
> Yes. There's already https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630740 
> reporting the same issue.
>
> The issue is caused by the version upgrade of the gtk and gnome packages. 
> However, the upgrade itself cannot be the problem as long as anything is 
> compiled against the new versions.
>
> I suspect the problem is in the webkit package, because those are pre-built 
> binaries, built against an older gtk version. I started gnucash without any 
> report windows open and it worked as long as only the account hierarchy was 
> visible. Opening any other window will cause a crash. I'd first suspect 
> webkit, but OTOH some incompatibilities between the gtk binary packages might 
> also be a problem. Sorry for that.

I would bet that it is indeed webkit being built against an older
version of gtk!  We don't build webkit ourselves so we should probably
get the webkit rebuilt with the newer gtk.  I think Phil built it last
time.

Phil?

> Regards,
>
> Christian

-derek

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