Wed Aug 04 14:32:57 2010: Request 59916 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by REHSACK
Queue: Wx
Subject: Wx makes perl dumping core when no DISPLAY set
Broken in: 0.9701, 0.9702
Severity: Critical
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: rehs...@cpan.org
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59916 >
On Sun Aug 01 06:35:07 2010, mattia.bar...@libero.it wrote:
> Jens Rehsack via RT wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I've seen RT#41716 - and this RT is more or less the same report with
> > another background.
> >
> > We (pkgsrc) package some perl modules using Wx - at least Padre and some
> > plugins. All these package fail the bulk builds with perl core dumps,
> > because of the Wx requirement.
>
> If you do a simple 'use Wx', does it crash that way? Is there a
> simple test case for the bug?
$ env DISPLAY= perl -e 'use Wx qw(:allclasses); print wxYES, "\n";';
Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ env DISPLAY= perl -e 'use Wx qw(wxYES); print wxYES, "\n";';Error:
Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
2
$ env DISPLAY= perl -Mblib t/01_load.t
1..6
Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
Use of uninitialized value $Wx::_universal in concatenation (.) or
string at /usr/pkgsrc/x11/p5-Wx/work/Wx-0.9702/blib/lib/Wx.pm line 160.
Use of uninitialized value $Wx::_static in concatenation (.) or string
at /usr/pkgsrc/x11/p5-Wx/work/Wx-0.9702/blib/lib/Wx.pm line 161.
ok 1 - use Wx;
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
How much simpler should the test case be?
I'm sorry, I'm no GUI developer, neither using Wx nor any other graphics
library. I can't do more than showing you with your own code, where it
fails.
> > I used the severity "Critical", because this bug prevents creating of
> > binary packages for those modules.
> >
> > A backtrace of the dump is included.
> >
> > You can reproduce it simply by doing "env DISPLAY= prove t".
Best regards,
Jens
