On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Chris Frey wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:07:07AM -0500, ashley willis wrote: >> i'm running gentoo on both an amd64 system and a crusoe laptop, and i >> can't get the GUI (version 0.12) compiled on either due to problems >> with libtar. is there a certain version of libtar needed? is there >> another linux distro that the GUI works on, which can be installed in >> vmware? i downloaded vmware for free (i read the barry notes!), but i >> can't get debian installed. > > Hi Ashley, > > Sorry for the delay in responding. > > Gentoo has a bug in their libtar-1.2.11-memleak.patch, similar to the bugs > introduced in the Mandriva and Archlinux distros. I believe this bug > has been fixed in those distros, but apparently not in Gentoo.
<snip c code i don't understand> ya know, after trying gentoo's libtar, i tried just about every libtar-1.2.x, all with the same problem. just now i decided i'd try compiling the gui again (i rebooted yesterday for some reason), and i was surprised to see it work. i suppose the gentoo libtar wasn't completely uninstalled somehow until a reboot? not used to that problem! i ended up installing ubuntu under vmware and getting it to work. i also ended up writing a command-line perl program which calls a hacked version of btool to create compatible backup files. i've also written programs to deconstruct and reconstruct .ipd files, as well as turn them into barrybackup .tar.gz files, and also one to extract the images from "Content Store" (the main reason for dealing with all of this: i want my pictures i took, and i have a blackberry without a data plan, so i can't email them). two things i'd like to see in btool are an option to not parse any databases, and an option to output the raw data instead of a hex dump. i just deleted the parsing feature from btool, but i can't figure out how to not have the hexdump output as i'm not a c programmer (yeah, i keep *meaning* to learn...). i haven't figured out how to put things onto my phone yet, though. oh, and forgetting that i did "echo Y > /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_snoop" caused about 13G of data in /var/log in just a few days. :) i stripped most of it out. -ashley -- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
