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From: pa-nospam@mjolner.com (Peter Andersen)
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Subject: Re: Solaris bugs ...?
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 09:30:04 +0000 (UTC)
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To follow up on this one (which was continued at support@mjolner.dk):

1. No, solaris is by no means less important to us than linux.
   Actually we often develop thing for solaris before doing it for
   linux (:-)

2. The specific problem here was caused by changes on the solaris
   installation on Atles machine, which caused the paths to the files
   to be different than when they were compiled.
   Since some paths are put into the .ast(L) files produced by the
   BETA compiler, the tools manipulating/using the ast(L) files may
   run into problems when already compiles ast(L)-files are moved to a
   differnenet location. This does not happen for files under
   $BETALIB, but files in your private home directory may cause these
   problems.
   The problems in this case was solved by removing all .ast files and
   recompiling the programs.

Sincerely,
Peter Andersen

In <a9mier$t1e$1@news.net.uni-c.dk> Jan Atle Ramsli <trollet@skynet.be> writes:

>Yesterday, I installed the Solaris version on my not yet upgraded Ultra
>10 - mjolner only takes 32Mb anyway.
>But I have a feelings that there are more bugs under Solaris than under
>Linux?
>Is mjolner being developed under Linux?
>These bugs are extremely hard to reproduce, they 'look like' memory
>leaks?
>The crash (almost?) always happens in Motif, could there be some issue
>with freeing widgets?
>One of the difficulties I have with Motif, is keeping track of when
>widgets are being freed, some of it happens automatically, and that is a
>nuisance, because you may allocate 5 objects and only free one or two.
>If a deallocated widget is still referenced somewhere, bugs will crawl
>out of the screen.

>When I manage to reproduce it properly, I will give a bug report ... for
>now I just have the 'impression' that there are more Solaris-bugs than
>Linux-bugs, and that is strange, given that Solaris is that much
>stabler?

>Atle