Hi Olly, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Olly Betts <o...@survex.com> wrote: > It's high time we actually got rid of wxwidgets2.8, so I took another > look at this bug. > > Upstream have yet to make a release from trunk, so I tried to make > minimal changes to get 13.12 working rather than packaging a VCS > snapshot. > > Olly Betts wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:59:25AM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote: >> > My understanding is that upstream is working towards porting >> > codeblocks for wx 3.0, but it's currently not fully stable yet (e.g. >> > #736368). >> >> The issue there is most likely because wx 3.0 enables "WXDEBUG" mode >> by default which includes checks for incorrect API usage, whereas with >> wx 2.8 you had to specify it explicitly when you built the library. In >> other words, codeblocks is misusing the wx API, but with 2.8 this gets >> quietly ignored by default, whereas 3.0 reports it by default. >> >> I bet if you rebuilt codeblocks using the WXDEBUG build of 2.8 >> (available in Debian in package libwxgtk2.8-dbg - despite the name, this >> isn't debug symbols, but a separate build of the library) you'd see this >> assertion too. >> >> The simplest way to address this is to build codeblocks with -DNDEBUG >> (pass it in CPPFLAGS usually), which makes wx 3.0 behave as a default >> build of 2.8 would. > > I tested this workaround and I can't reproduce #736368 in a build with > -DNDEBUG defined. It's a shame we didn't actually test that before > jessie - sorry about that. > > Running cleanly without disabling the WXDEBUG checks would be better, > but these checks are off by default in wx2.8, so it's no worse than the > current situation, and it doesn't seem worth investing time trying to > track down the relevant fixes from trunk.
Ack; sorry on my side for dropping the ball on this. > Vincent Cheng <vch...@debian.org> writes: >> In case I haven't made it clear previously, you're more than welcome >> to NMU codeblocks; I doubt David and/or Michael would object. > > Thanks, I've prepared an NMU for codeblocks (versioned as 13.12-3.1) and > uploaded it. Thanks, I've committed your changes to collab-maint as well. Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
