Subject: Re: xfig problems (modular xorg-related?)
To: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 09/11/2007 17:28:34
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:38:42 +0200
Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I'm unable to use xfig -- dumps core when I click on File, Edit, or
> > View. I had used it successfully a few months ago, with monolithic
> > xorg; I'm using it (freshly compiled) with modular xorg. Here's the
> > backtrace:
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> I believe this is the same problem I have encountered. It's ooooold
> (pre-modular-xorg). I had to go to my university just to draw some
> simple pictures. :-( I believe I filed a PR; I also believe Tobias
> Nygren provided a work-around patch. I did debug it more thoroughly
> after I filed the PR, but I currently can't remember what the problem
> was exactly.
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> Ah, yes; here it is:
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=36178
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OK, the patch works for me with modular xorg; thanks. The question is
whether this is a patch that should be fed back upstream to the xfig
folks or to the xorg folks, or if it should be in our xorg patch
directory.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb