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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:14:52 +0000 (UTC) |
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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> I'd suggest going ahead and filing that bug and patch with Gentoo's |
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> bugzilla, particularly since you have a patch ready. Well, first do a |
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> search and see if there's already a bug filed on it that you can add the |
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> patch to. |
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I created a bug report, or actually two reports, #267536 and #267567, dealing |
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with cooledit-3.17.17. However, the issue has already been referred to the |
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"maintainer-needed" catagory, and I will assume that this means no action will |
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be taken on the issue because of the lack of a maintainer. |
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Well, anyway, I believe that I have the problem solved. For anyone who desires |
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to use cooledit, which is a fine and versatile text editor, a manual compilation |
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will be necessary. First apply the patch that I supplied with my original |
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post. Also apply the three other patches that are already in the portage tree. |
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A second step is also needed. After running ./configure, a file named config.h |
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is created in the root of the source tree. Edit this file and delete the line |
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that contains the definition: "#define HAVE_PYTHON 1." Cooledit is somehow not |
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compatible with recent versions of python and eliminating any python binding will |
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create a trouble-free cooledit. |
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If anyone knows how to patch the configure process, please inform how this |
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can be done. |
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Cooledit uses python as an extension language for custom scripting, but the |
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removal of python will not affect any of the ordinary editing capabilities. |
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It seems that all the crashes can be eliminated by following these two steps. |
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So far I haven't had any difficulty and hope the problem is now solved completely. |
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Frank Peters |
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