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FS#3091 - devhelp segfaults after -Syu for testing

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Leonard Ritter (paniq) - Friday, 19 August 2005, 00:14 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Friday, 19 August 2005, 19:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

after a complete -Syu for the testing branch, devhelp just quits with a segfault.

gdb shows

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1224325440 (LWP 13755)]
0xb7c9c16c in gecko_prefs_set_string () from /opt/gnome/lib/libdevhelp-1.so.0

is devhelp already built against gcc 4 and the current gnome libs?
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Saturday, 01 October 2005, 15:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Friday, 19 August 2005, 19:28 GMT
looks like it needs a rebuild against the new firefox
could you please try it using the abs ?
Comment by Leonard Ritter (paniq) - Saturday, 20 August 2005, 18:25 GMT
what is the abs?
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 20 August 2005, 18:39 GMT
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

abs is the arch build system ;)
Comment by Leonard Ritter (paniq) - Saturday, 20 August 2005, 19:33 GMT
hmm... the latest firefox i find in the abs tree is 1.0.4?
Comment by Leonard Ritter (paniq) - Saturday, 20 August 2005, 19:34 GMT
doh. this is about devhelp, not firefox ;)
Comment by Leonard Ritter (paniq) - Saturday, 20 August 2005, 19:35 GMT
ok, i need a supfile for testing, where do i get it from?
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 20 August 2005, 19:46 GMT
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=7154&highlight=testing+abs
i just wanted you to rebuild yelp... it is in extra not testing. but here is the info ;)
Comment by Leonard Ritter (paniq) - Saturday, 20 August 2005, 22:04 GMT
yelp? how? why? what should that do?

i dont understand much right now. i was just trying to help.
Comment by Leonard Ritter (paniq) - Saturday, 20 August 2005, 22:05 GMT
makepkg in /var/abs/gnome/yelp gives me

checking which mozilla to use... configure: error: no mozilla installation found
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

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