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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

We also seem to have assertions enabled in the Debian build (there have
been two reports from users [1], [2]). Is this something we control as
well, or is the the distribution packaging forcing them on?

-Ian

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1847554
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1848107

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 6:51 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I thought this might be the case.  If you click cancel, the assertion
> dialog will not be displayed again until you restart KiCad.
>
> Would one of our macos devs please take a look at the config settings
> use to build wxWidgets and see if we can turn the assertions off on
> release builds?  This might require some compiler flag settings to
> completely disable.
>
> On 10/21/19 1:39 PM, Kymatica wrote:
> > Ok. It’s not crashing after I tap No, but it’s ”a bit” annoying,
> especially when there’s a chain of 5 or so assertion pop-ups, as seems to
> happen sometimes when rerunning simulation while some error in the
> schematics make the sim fail and not finding the plotted nets.
> >
> > /Jonatan
> >
> >> 21 okt. 2019 kl. 19:44 skrev Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >> Hi Jonaton,
> >>
> >> This is an assertion in wxWidgets being raised.  This really shouldn't
> >> happen on release builds.  While assertions like this are annoying they
> >> are not show stoppers unless clicking either the "No" or "Cancel"
> >> buttons cause KiCad to crash.  I'm guessing this is not the case but one
> >> of our macos devs can confirm this.  It looks like our macos wxWidgets
> >> library builds need to have the assertions disabled.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Wayne
> >>
> >>> On 10/20/19 10:37 AM, Kymatica wrote:
> >>> I still see this a lot on macOS, not only when editing symbol fields
> but
> >>> here and there:
> >>>
> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844545
> >>>
> >>> I don’t think 5.1.5 is ”production ready” until this is fixed.
> >>>
> >>> /Jonatan
> >>>
> >>>>> 20 okt. 2019 kl. 17:13 skrev Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2019-10-20 06:41, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>>> Where are we on the 5.1.5 release?  I took a look at the bug tacker
> and
> >>>>> the only serious bug I saw was the glib assertion bug[1].  How close
> are
> >>>>> we to getting this fixed?  There is still some unexpected behavior
> with
> >>>>> the constrained zone drawing and editing changes that should be fixed
> >>>>> before we release.  I would like to tag -rc1 and start the string
> freeze
> >>>>> by the end of October.
> >>>>
> >>>> Odd, I didn't see that one come through.  I'll fix that this weekend.
> >>>>
> >>>> -S
> >>>>
> >>>> Seth Hillbrand
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