[PUSHED] x11 / cairo-less build try #3

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 02/21/2012 04:07 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 09:21 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>>> 	Nice - IMHO this is all a bit silly - the 'main' has no wrapper 'catch'
>>> around it, so if we get an un-caught exception we bomb out in a very
>>> unpleasant way for no particularly good reason.
> ...
>>> 	Stephan - is there a reason why we would not catch and print something
>>> helpful (a native dialog?) on unhandled exceptions around master ?
> ...
>> In my experience, such exceptions typically indicate a programming error
>> (either in actual program code, or in the way the bits of the program
>> are combined into an installation set).  And for programmers, it is
>> often more helpful to see the direct consequences of such error than
>> some "helpful" mediation on LO's part (like the infamous "The user
>> language cannot be determined" message, typically caused by some problem
>> that has zero to do with any locale data, only leading devs to start
>> searching in the wrong direction).
>
> 	Haha :-) indeed, however a pathalogical, silent abort, without even an
> auto-save, or any message from the exception is rather unfortunate
> too ;-)

This should not be a "silent abort, without even an auto-save" 
anyway---at least not in production builds where the sal signal handler 
machinery should catch the abort.  (No idea what the current status is, 
which configurations lead to which behaviour wrt. that signal handler.)

Stephan