Re: xfig on amd64

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:27:41 +0000
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:

> Is anyone successfully using xfig on amd64?  I get
> 
>       xfig3.2.5-alpha5: SIGSEGV signal trapped
>       xfig: figure empty or not modified - exiting
>       Abort (core dumped) 
> 
> when I try to open an existing file.
> 
>
Following up my own post...

The problem is related to text.  If I delete the text lines from the
offending files, everything works.  If I create a file with xfig, it
works until I try to enter some text.  Any idea where I should be
looking?  Backtrace shows this:


#3  <signal handler called>
#4  0x00007f7ffbeb7650 in strcpy () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#5  0x0000000000481790 in lookfont ()
#6  0x0000000000435332 in read_textobject ()
#7  0x0000000000435d0b in read_compoundobject ()
#8  0x00000000004360e7 in read_objects ()
#9  0x00000000004366e9 in readfp_fig ()
#10 0x00000000004369ca in read_fig ()
#11 0x0000000000436a63 in read_figc ()
#12 0x000000000043156f in load_file ()
#13 0x0000000000441455 in main ()

I suspect it's environment, since others report no such problems.  (I
can rebuild wtih -g, I suppose.)

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb