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On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 22:23 -0400, Frank Peters wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> |
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> I am not sure if this list is the appropriate place to file a bug |
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> report, but the problem does need confirmation before I go through |
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> bugzilla. |
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> After building a working amd64 system using the latest portage tree, |
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> I emerged my favorite text editor, cooledit, version 3.17.17 To my |
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> surprise, any cut/copy/paste operation immediately caused a crash. |
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> Fortunately, the error messages were quite informative and allowed me |
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> to quickly find the cause. A call to "open" in the file widget/editcmd.c |
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> of the cooledit source does not include the mode parameter. Somehow, |
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> with the latest libraries, this missing parameter causes the crash. |
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> The attached patch file, missing_mode.patch, will fix the problem. |
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> |
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> Apply with: patch -p1 < missing_mode.patch. The gentoo sources |
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> include a few other patches as well that are also necessary, |
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> especially the gcc4 patch. |
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> But, as I mentioned, it would be beneficial if this problem could |
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> be confirmed. Cooledit is not the most popular text editor but |
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> maybe someone also uses it or is willing to test it. |
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> |
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> If someone can confirmn this, then I can file a bugreport with |
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> gentoo bugzilla. |
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> |
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> Frank Peters |
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more problems than that: |
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oddman ~ # cooledit |
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cooledit: display :0.0 cannot load font |
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-*-fixed-bold-r-*--13-120-*-*-*-80-* |
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as a font set - trying raw load. |
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cooledit: display :0.0 cannot load font |
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-*-fixed-bold-r-*--13-120-*-*-*-80-* |
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And crashed. |
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And did not get picked up in gnome apps office |
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