Re: [Bug-xnee] Package of Xnee for Fedora

[Henrik Sandklef]

On 09/04/2011 09:57 PM, Casper wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to package Xnee for Fedora.
> Fedora is a distribution of GNU/Linux sponsored by Red Hat.

I kind of know about Fedora :)

> You can follow the intregration in fedora repo here :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726080
>
> After the build, we must run "rpmlint" (it's a software to check the RPM built)
> and I report you one warning.
> rpmlint output :
> xnee-libs.x86_64: W: shared-lib-calls-exit /usr/lib64/libxnee.so.0.0.0 
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> This library package calls exit() or _exit(), probably in a non-fork()
> context. Doing so from a library is strongly discouraged - when a library
> function calls exit(), it prevents the calling program from handling the
> error, reporting it to the user, closing files properly, and cleaning up any
> state that the program has. It is preferred for the library to return an
> actual error code and let the calling program decide how to handle the
> situation.

Huau... didn't know libxnee did that. If I knew it would have been 
removed, probably some left over code from the time when Xnee was one 
command line program (monolith) only. Wish I had a good excuse for this. 
I don't. I'll fix it asap.

> Please fix it for the next version.

You bet.

> Best regards
> Matthieu Saulnier
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