Re: [bugreport] lablgtk un{st,us}able

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:59:39PM +0100, Remi VANICAT wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm a bit puzzled about the behaviour of lablgtk on debian/unstable, I'm
> > using the latest 1.x lablgtk version (1.2.5-6+20021031).
> >
> > Even the simplest /usr/share/doc/liblablgtk-ocaml-dev/examples/hello.ml
> > doesn't work (I've removed some blank lines from the a.out output
> > between various Gtk/Glib messages to trim down this mail):
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> > libgtk1.2 version is 1.2.10-14.
> >
> > I'm able to reproduce the same behaviour on at least 3 debian/unstable
> > and also on some woody boxes with my lablgtk rebuilt packages.
> 
> It's normal, those example need to be compiled with the init predicate:

:)))

> moi@debian:/tmp$ ocamlfind ocamlc -predicates init -package lablgtk -linkpkg hello.ml 
> File "hello.ml", line 10, characters 2-98:
> Warning: this expression should have type unit.
> File "hello.ml", line 12, characters 2-44:
> Warning: this expression should have type unit.
> File "hello.ml", line 13, characters 2-74:
> Warning: this expression should have type unit.
> File "hello.ml", line 14, characters 2-49:
> Warning: this expression should have type unit.
> moi@debian:/tmp$ ./a.out 
> Hello World
> moi@debian:/tmp$ 
> 
> why it is not the default ? because someone may want to have an
> executable that some time initialize the gtk part, sometime don't. 
> 
> Is this documented ? may be not, and may be it should be in a
> readme.Debian :
> 
> something like :
> 
> This package have a support for ocamlfind and lablgtk. It use the
> following predicate :
> - init : initialize gtk. Otherwise you have to do it in your code
>          before using any other lablgtk related function
> - gnome : add the gnome support
> - glade : add libglade
> 
> they can be used in any combination

Yes, i will add such a think to the package, i have to rebuild it
anyway, since :

$ lablgtk -labels hello.ml
Fatal error: unknown C primitive `ml_gen_texture'

guess it is the new lablgl's fault.

Friendly,

Sven Luther