Re: xfig problems (modular xorg-related?)

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

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:38:42 +0200
Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost> 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.
> 
> 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