Re: [bug-gv] gv-3.7.1 segfaults two times

[Markus Steinborn]

Hi Winfried,

thanks for your reply.

address@hidden wrote:
> As I have a SLACKWARE system, I have installed what can
> be found at:
>
> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-13.1/source/x/xaw3d/
>    
Oh dear, both patches from README.I18N are missing, that cannot work... 
I haven't seen such a buggy Xaw3d package for a longer time. Most of the 
working bug fixes from git://gitorious.org/xaw3d/xaw3d.git (available 
via web frontend at http://gitorious.org/xaw3d/ ) are missing.

As this mail will be available in public archives and linux distributors 
might read this:

@linux distributors: Please provide a working Xaw3d release for the 
users of your distribution. git master of 
git://gitorious.org/xaw3d/xaw3d.git has been tested by redhat without 
any regressions for a few month now (ok, because of (now solved) 
problems they decided to add an additional patch that makes missing 
fontsets not a fatal error). Before that, individual patches have been 
tested by several distributions, so all of these patches have been 
tested for at least more than a year. There have been no known problems. 
Please forward this message to the person responsible for the Xaw3d 
package.
> This has not been changed since I have installed it on
> my system (May 2010).
>
> The 'git.savannah.gnu.org' patch did not help.
Of cause it does not. It does not help for a broken Xaw3d. It's designed 
to help in case Xaw3d does not support international mode.
> By the way: I have - after some changes - 'gv' compiled and
> installed using 'neXtaw-0.15.1' instead of Xaw3d. Only the
> 'git.savannah.gnu.org' patch has been applied.
> No segfault during some tests.
>    
I would have expected this. We have an unpublished patch available that 
makes GNU gv run on plain Xaw3d, no production quality, but it works 
without segfaults.

Now that we know that a buggy Xaw3d is the cause for your problems, I 
cannot help any further.

Cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587349 for an example of 
a bug report for the above problem. Note that for Slackware both patches 
are missing, while in Fedora only the second patch mentioned in 
README.I18N was missing. You should report this bug to Slackware, the 
bug report from redhat might help you.
> winfried
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