Thank you for your help. I shall be able to continue hacking with more confidence.
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:16 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > Unfortunately running a non-pro OOo results in many assertions popping > up. I was just recently frustrated by that once again, and decided (for > myself, at least) we should finally address that problem by letting > those assertions abort, so just now filed > <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=109142>. > > And, the prevalent notion that those assertions are not fixed, anyway, > has let many to no longer bother about them, especially not filing > issues for them. This would change when assertions abort, so that P1 > reports would be filed (and fixed!) for them. On the one hand, the current state of affairs has the virtue of letting a hacker continue on toward the problem he is looking for. (I did have a purpose. I will someday remember what it was. <grin />) A hard abort, on the other hand, might have provoked me either to fix the assertion or to give up trying to use a non-pro build. Would it be feasible and useful to encourage the use of non-pro builds? Back when I first tried to build OOo, something -- perhaps it was a warning like "Currently, Non-Product Builds are probably rarely used outside the Hamburg development team" in <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Non_Product_Build> -- gave me the impression that non-pro builds are not something that a newbie should use. Now, I see that it is really easy to create a non-pro build. It remains to be seen whether it gets me any forwarder. FWIW, here is how I came to try a non-pro build. First, I managed a couple of times to send DEV300_m70 into an infinite loop, but I had no idea what I had done to make the program so peeved with me. It would be good to have a trace of the inputs to the program. For all I know, the non-pro build may allow that, although I have not found the facility. Anyway, I guessed it would be easier to try a non-pro build than to explore testautomation. Secondly, I wondered whether my loop was the same as issue 108055 <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=108055>. For reasons which I still do not understand, my breakpoints in gdb did not catch the creation of some objects. From somewhere--but I cannot find it now--I have acquired the notion that a non-pro build will let me track object creation and deletion. I have yet search for that facility, and I do not know whether it will get me any forwarder. Please forgive me for rambling on, and thank you for your patience. Cheers, Terry. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
