Re: 2026Q1 x11/xephem segfaults amd64

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 27/6/26 a las 0:35, Greg Troxel escribió:
> Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > El 26/6/26 a las 21:08, Jonathan A. Kollasch escribió:
> > > > Any help will be appreciated. Should I fill a PR?
> > > Could you see if it's a ctype(3) abuse issue?
> >
> > netbsd-x260$ export LIBC_ALLOWCTYPEABUSE=true
> > netbsd-x260$ xephem
> >
> > It works now.
>
> Thanks.   I will see about this, but I'm unclear on the status of xephem
> upstream.  It does seem there is a new maintainer.
>
> I suspect NetBSD is fussier about ctype(3) and we'll have to fix it, but
> I would very much want anything we fix filed upstream.
>
> https://www.arnewsline.org/news-text/2026/1/30/silent-key-elwood-downey-wboew-creator-of-hamclock

Hi Greg,

Just curious, why does xephem work on the RPi4 aarch64 and does not crash? are not the ctype functions abused the same way?

Regards.
Ramiro.