Re: garnome-2.10.0: problems with gnomemeeting-1.2.1

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Here is the work-around compliments of one of the creators of
gnomemeeting:

------- Additional Comments From Damien Sandras  2005-03-14 11:04 -----
That's a bug in GCC:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16717

Solution is to compile with -O1.

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On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 18:54, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> SYSTEM:
> * PPC running YDL-4.0.1, a FC2 clone for PPC's
> * gcc-3.3.3
> * gnomemeeting-1.2.1
> * pwlib-1.8.4
> * openh323-1.15.3
> * howl-0.9.10
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The "Picture" video plugin, specified in ./src/vfakeio.h
> 
>                         ...
> 	PCREATE_VIDINPUT_PLUGIN (Picture, GMH323FakeVideoInputDevice);
>                         ...
> 
> has gone missing, which forces gnomemeeting-1.2.1 to exit, albeit
> ungracefully [it crashes on exit]:
> 
> [./src/gnomemeeting.cpp]
> 
>                        ...
>         /* No Picture plugin => Exit */
>           fake_idx = video_managers.GetValuesIndex (PString ("Picture"));
>           if (fake_idx == P_MAX_INDEX)
>             return FALSE;
>                       ...
> 
> Perusing the gnomemeeting lists, I see that the problem of the missing
> "Picture plugin" has appeared before. Discussions centered around code
> generated by different compiler versions.
> 
> For what it's worth,  I do not see this problem with gnomemeeting-1.0.2,
> which is installed as part of YDL-4.0.1, an FC2 clone for PPC's:
> 
> * gnomemeeting-1.0.2-2
> * pwlib-1.6.5-1
> * openh323-1.13.4-2
>         
> 
> I looked at the preprocessor output, "g++ -E", of ./src/cfakeio.cpp for
> both 
> 
> * gnomemeeting-1.0.2 [pwlib-1.6.5-1]
> * gnomemeeting-1.2.1 [pwlib-1.8.4]
> 
> to see how the macro "PCREATE_VIDINPUT_PLUGIN" was expanded in each
> version. They are quite different, which leads me to suspect that there
> are issues with the PCREATE macros defined in pwlib-1.8.4 that did not
> occur in pwlib-1.6.5-1.
> 
> 
> -Joseph
> 
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