Re: Release broken (was: Re: [freesci-develop] cvs: rune)

[Lars Skovlund]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:03:08PM +0100, Christoph Reichenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >                      (xlib_init_specific): Fixed segfault. /Rune 
> >     src/gfx/drivers: xlib_driver.c ChangeLog 
> >                      src/gfx/drivers/xlib_driver.c Log message: 
> >                      2003-01-22 Rune Orsval <address@hidden> * 
> >                      src/gfx/drivers/xlib_dirver.c 
> >                      (xlib_init_specific): Fixed segfault. /Rune 
> 
> so what this means is essentially that the xlib driver in the official release
> is broken, and no one noticed it.

Yes, but only on a rather obscure platform. 

According to 
<http://www.a-eskwadraat.nl/~freesci/horde/chora/diff.php/freesci/src/gfx/drivers/xlib_driver.c?login=2&amp;r1=1.65&amp;r2=1.66&amp;ty=u&amp;Horde=1b2b13feee85d6b7c0021c4c9ac380d5&Horde=1b2b13feee85d6b7c0021c4c9ac380d5>
this bug only affects HP-UX with cc (at least, that's how I understand
the comments), and our README states that FreeSCI has only been built,
not tested, on that platform. 

The Win32 build bug (reported by Gustav Almström) is worse, in my
view.

Lars