Hi Dale,
As I wrote you in the other (private) mail, I recently also became
maintainer of lesstif in Debian and also upstream. As well as for nedit
in Debian. My big challenge is to try and improve lesstif with HELP of
others, because my c and c++ skills are nearly zero. Therefore, the
process will be slow, but I intend to give lesstif some love (also with
the help of the fedora lesstif maintainer and others). (Side note, I
don't have commit rights in Debian, so I depend on a
not-so-quick-to-respond Debian developer).
So all people can help lesstif again by reporting bugs with patches
upstream.
Paul
Dale Whitfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had a very frustrating time with this. I inadvertently upgraded a
> bunch of packages which over-wrote the version of nedit I compiled
> myself. The Debian Linux package version dies on cut/paste with SIGSEGV.
> Subsequent attempts to rebuild my version were unsuccessful. Some
> wouldn't even start, just crashed before CreateWindow completed.
>
> A few things:
>
> 1) I removed all trace of Motif and Lesstif from my machine.
> 2) Fetched lesstif-0.95.2.tar.bz2 built and installed it.
> 3) Rebuild nedit (as from CVS)
>
> nedit still faults with SIGSEGV.
>
> I solved it with this patch to lesstif-0.95.2 for anyone interested.
> =============================
> --- lesstif-0.95.2.orig/lib/Xm-2.1/CutPaste.c 2007-09-12 22:05:58.000000000
> +0200
> +++ lesstif-0.95.2/lib/Xm-2.1/CutPaste.c 2009-09-05 16:13:09.000000000
> +0200
> @@ -1027,10 +1027,12 @@
> nunits = transferlen;
> /* XChangeProperty expects a buffer of longs when receiving 32 bits
> data, MEUHH */
> - if (sizeof(long) != 4)
> + if (sizeof(long) != 4) {
> convert_buf = XtMalloc(len * sizeof(long));
> - for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
> - convert_buf[i] = data[i];
> + if (convert_buf != NULL)
> + for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
> + convert_buf[i] = data[i];
> + }
> break;
>
> case 16:
> =============================
>
> I've sent a copy to Paul, a Lesstif developer. This may or may not be
> related to the Cut/Paste problem discussed on nedit-discuss recently.
>
> It may also be worth noting that Debian Linux lists Lesstif 0.95.0 under
> its unstable packages. To further the cause of NEdit, it may be worth
> chasing the maintainer to move to a more recent version. I'm not sure
> which version that is though. 0.95.2 ?
>
> BTW I'm writing this with SciTE. It works. My productivity was screwed
> with the bad nedit version and I am still fumbling around with SciTE.
> Its not ideal but 'needs must', until I get NEdit sorted out again.
>
> However, I've used nedit for probably 10 years now and want to continue
> using it. I've helped debug issues with it in the past. It is bit-rotting
> though. A stable version of Lesstif would help Linux users.
>
> What I must also add is that whenever someone pops up on the list with
> suggestions and sound keen on picking up development they eventually go
> away. It seems that they are more often than not discouraged than encouraged.
> I don't think its conscious but there should be reasons to want them to
> stick around, rather than reasons why the things they want to do are
> problematic.
>
> Dale.
>
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