[bt-devel] GnomeSword & BibleTime on PowerPC

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi!

> 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?

Try the option --debug with bibletime. This pronts out some function names 
called in BibleTime.
I have no idea why Sword's messages are not printed.

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

Thank you!
But I have to admit we have never thought about portability while 
programming :)

> --Chris

Joachim