First of all:

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 07:00 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>   Does 0.4.11.1-1 segfault for you?

Ha! No, it doesn't segfault anymore!  It appears to have fixed itself...
No idea how, though.

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:20:07PM +0200, Bram Senders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> was heard to say:
> > To be sure that the patch what fixes it, I de-applied it and make
> > again... but now aptitude still doesn't segfault!  Hmm.  It doesn't
> > segfault anymore either with or without the patch.  Maybe it's the build
> > options?  I try a straight debuild -- without your patch, and without
> > any CXXFLAGS, and install that package, run it... no segfault on
> > preferences!  Install the exact same version (0.4.11-3) from the Debian
> > archive... and it segfaults on preferences!  Now I am very confused.
> 
>   That's weird and disturbing.  Unfortunately, I have no idea how the
> Debian package for powerpc was built, since it's compiled on an autobuilder.
> The only thing I can think of is that maybe it was built against an
> incompatible library: for instance, libsigc++-2.0 could have changed its
> ABI without upstream bumping the SONAME (easy to do by accident with C++
> libraries).  If this was the case, though, I'd expect aptitude to
> segfault all over, not just in the preferences screen.

Hmm.  Yes.  Maybe that was it...

>   BTW: when you installed your hand-built package, you're sure you were
> running that and not some other version?  i.e., if you ran "make install"
> to install aptitude systemwide, you'll need to remove it to get it out
> of $PATH.

Yes, I did take care of that :-)

Well, umm, I guess this bug can be closed, then, even though we are not
sure what the cause was?

Cheers,
Bram



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