gnucash -help crashes

[Josh Sled]

"Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>> I realized by accident that starting GnuCash 2.2.1 with a "-help" option (as
>> opposed to "--help") causes a crash, at least on Windows XP.  If I launch
>> from within dbg, the signal received is SIGTRAP, which seems very odd since
>> I never set any breakpoints.
>>
>> Any ideas, or shall I file a bug report? I couldn't find anything similar in
>> Bugzilla.
>
> My guess is that this happens because glib was compiled with debugging turned
> on (G_ENABLE_DEBUG). So instead of quitting cleanly, you crash with a SIGTRAP
> signal when g_error() is called. If my theory is right, then maybe some of the
> other "GnuCash crashes when X happens" bugs are coming from this.

Yeah, that's exactly what's happening, and it's a bit annoying.  I've just
changed this to a [[[ g_warning(…); exit(1); ]]] instead.


> If it's worth any further discussion, maybe this ought to move over to the
> developer mailing list. I don't know how to move this there, or even how to
> properly reply to my own original post, I'm afraid.

You seem to have replied to it just fine … it's just a mailing list, so a
normal reply in your mailer should do the right thing.

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