Reminder: Beta 2 this WE

[Brian J. Tarricone]

hi all,

devs: a reminder - please update your modules' version numbers to 
4.1.91, and it's also a good practice to make it depend on 4.1.91 of all 
the xfce foundation libs/packages if applicable.  also, please autogen, 
and commit _all_ the changed files.  i think some of our missing .so 
suffix lib problems were due to files in our trees generated from 
multiple autotool versions.  i know we have "official" tools versions, 
but as long as you're using autoconf 2.59, automake 1.8.x, and libtool 
1.5.2+, stuff should work ok.

hehe, i just noticed that the NEWS file in xfdesktop hasn't been updated 
in over a year!

speaking of pending fixes, i've been unable to track down or reproduce 
the crashing taskbar problem.  olivier, you think the reorg commit you 
made this afternoon might have accidentally fixed it?

everyone else: if you use xftaskbar4, please help in trying to reproduce 
this bug.  update to the latest CVS of libxfcegui4 and xfce-utils, and 
recompile both of them passing --enable-debug=yes to the configure 
script.  then open a terminal on a desktop in the corner where you won't 
bother it and do this:

$ rm core core.*
$ ulimit -c unlimited
$ killall xftaskbar4
$ xftaskbar4

then minimise the window and leave it alone.  if the taskbar ever 
disappears on you, go back to this terminal, and see if it dumped a core 
file.  it might just be called "core", or it might have the process ID 
of the taskbar appended to it it (i.e., "core.$PID").  if you have one 
of these files, do this:

$ gdb xtaskbar4 core      #or use core.$PID, if necessary
[will print stuff]
(gdb) bt
[will print more stuff, *copy and paste this into an email and send it 
to the xfce4-dev list!*]
(gdb) quit
[quits back to shell prompt]

if you can do this, and you get a core file and a backtrace out of it 
that we can use to fix the bug, you will have my eternal gratitude.  the 
more people we have doing this, the better the chance that someone will 
be able to reproduce the bug and get us some useful info, so the more 
people that can do this, the better.

thanks,
brian

Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>As planned, we shall release beta this WE. If you have any pending fix,
>please make sure it's applied before Saturday 18:00 CET
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Olivier.
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