Bug#493300: blobandconquer crashes on startup on i386

2008-08-02 Thread peter green
If the patch doesn't work The patches author clearly stated that the patch was incomplete only dealing with word size differences not endian differences (so it will fix compatibility between i386 and amd64 but not between those architectures and say powerpc). That should be easilly fixed thou

Bug#493300: blobandconquer crashes on startup on i386

2008-08-02 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:09:07PM +0100, peter green wrote: >> The attached patch fixes this (with casts etc.) for at least these two >> architectures, but it still needs correction for big-endian systems. It >> should (probably) be reworked a little to properly serialise the reading & >> writing

Bug#493300: blobandconquer crashes on startup on i386

2008-08-02 Thread peter green
The attached patch fixes this (with casts etc.) for at least these two architectures, but it still needs correction for big-endian systems. It should (probably) be reworked a little to properly serialise the reading & writing within the FileData class. Why not simply make blobandconquer-data arch

Bug#493300: blobandconquer crashes on startup on i386

2008-08-01 Thread Darren Salt
Source: blobandconquer Version: 0.99-1 Severity: grave Justification: makes package unusable Tags: patch blobandconquer, installed on i386, segfaults after spewing some apparently-corrupt debug text. blobandconquer, installed on amd64, works fine. Recompiled on i386 and with the rebuilt blobandc