PPC Linux: Musca compiles but do not function

[Jon Kapla]

I've earlier tried to run Musca on my ibook g3 with Arch Linux PPC. It compiles without errors, but it does not start properly and just sits there eating cpu. I also had a chat with Sean on the irc channel about this problem and provided him with some debug info that he asked for, but he has no ppc machine to test on, and I have too little knowledge in programming to try to fix it myself.

Recently I switched from Arch Linux PPC to the ppc port of Debian on the same ibook. The behaviour of Musca is the same.

If you need any debugging, just tell me and I can attach it to this bug (be sure to give me instructions how to get it).

[Sean Pringle (sean-pringle)]

Please test with revision 263 from the dev tree: https://code.launchpad.net/musca . Since our initial tests showed musca hanging while processing arguments (which seems weird), this revision uses custom argument parsing, instead of getopt(), to double check that observation.

[Jon Kapla (jon-kapla)]

With rev. 263 it actually starts (yay!), and I can split frames and such but I cannot open programs with dmenu (Mod4+x, I get the menu but nothing happens when trying to start i.e. firefox. Could this behaviour come from the change in the handling of arguments?) and it does not read my ~/.musca_start as it seems.

I got some warnings during compile:

[jon@gravensteiner trunk]$ make
cc -Wall -g -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lc -lm -lX11 -o musca musca.c
cc -Wall -g -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lc -lm -lX11 -o apis apis.c
In file included from apis.h:27,
                 from apis.c:22:
xwin.c: In function ‘XFriendlyResize’:
xwin.c:197: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘round’
xwin.c:197: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘round’
cc -Wall -g -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lc -lm -lX11 -o xlisten xlisten.c

[Sean Pringle (sean-pringle)]

Please retry with rev 267?

[Sean Pringle (sean-pringle)]

No, make that rev 268...

[Jon Kapla (jon-kapla)]

I tried rev 268 (if I got it right: "bzr checkout lp:musca -r 268") but the .musca_start is still ignored it seems.