[bt-devel] GnomeSword & BibleTime on PowerPC

[Chris Little]

I installed Yellow Dog Linux on my PowerMac G4 yesterday, did a few
fixes for Sword to get it to compile on the PowerPC processor, then set
out to get BibleTime & GnomeSword working. Both now mostly work. I'd
appreciate some help (if possible) with getting them both fully
functioning.

Here's a screenshot of GnomeSword, showing the only problem I've noticed
with it: http://www.crosswire.org/~chrislit/gnomesword-ppc.jpg .  There
are no icons in the left side menu.  Any ideas Terry?

And here's a screenshot of BibleTime (just to prove it really did run,
since the problem isn't visible):
http://www.crosswire.org/~chrislit/bibletime-ppc.jpg.  The problem with
BibleTime seems to be with compressed modules.  Whenever I change to the
compressed commentaries, I get a segfault.  There were some errors with
Sword in this area, but I've cleaned them up now (and rebuilt BT from
scratch, so I know it's not using the old code).  Is there some way I
could get more debugging info out of BibleTime?  I was able to track
down the bug in Sword because GnomeSword was printing Sword's debug
messages to the screen, but BT isn't doing that and I wonder if perhaps
there are additional bugs in the same area that aren't being triggered
by GnomeSword.  Is there a way for me to get more debugging info
(including Sword's debug messages printed to stdout/stderr) from
BibleTime?

On the whole, I must congratulate you guys on building such portable
apps that they can so easily be re-compiled on new architectures.

--Chris