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