[MacPorts] #36041: gimp2: build fails on 10.5.8 PPC

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#36041: gimp2: build fails on 10.5.8 PPC
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  Reporter:  michael.klein@…  |      Owner:  devans@…
      Type:  defect           |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal           |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports            |    Version:  2.1.2
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:  powerpc
      Port:  gimp2            |
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Comment (by michael.klein@…):

 Replying to [comment:13 newchief@…]:
 > The most crucial change is in glib2. When I built gimp, I couldn't start
 it. It crashed right after splash screen with following backtrace:
 >
 >{{{
 > (gimp-2.8:7170): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gvalue.c:183: cannot
 initialize GValue with type 'gchararray', the value has already been
 initialized as '(null)'
 >}}}
 >
 >{{{
 > Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
 > Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x44424414
 > 0x01264370 in g_type_check_value ()
 >}}}

 I've seen this a while ago also with gnumeric. Seems to be caused by a bug
 in the gcc-4.2 shipped with Xcode. Rebuilding glib2 with apple-gcc42 did
 the trick for me. Since then I'm using apple-gcc42 as default compiler
 (port select gcc apple-gcc42)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36041#comment:14>
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