Re: [Bug-gnubg] Fedora Core 4 Build Problem

[Thomas A. Moulton]

Those changes alone seem to fix everything, I need to run a few more 
tests but so far so good.

The only other problem I see is that html.c and play.c do not have 
#include <time.h> in them

tom

Christian Anthon wrote:
> The crash was caused by a bug in the code, only visable when memory
> mapping failed or was disabled. I've checked in a fix for your compile
> problem and for the bug as well.
>
> My own guide-line to when a system is too old is debian stable, but it
> is possible that some or all of your problems are present on currently
> supported rhel systems, and I believe we should support those as well
> (if possible without too much code pollution). So send me a diff of
> what you need to do, and I'll take a look.
>
> Christian.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Thomas A. Moulton <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > It related to the bearoff database, once I removed those files it works, but
> > naturally makes errors.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > tom
> >
> > Thomas A. Moulton wrote:
> >     
> > > Well... it was acting up and I played via tty and after a while got:
> > >
> > > Considering move...Segmentation fault
> > >
> > > I guess we removed too much code :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Thomas A. Moulton wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Ok I was able to install the built version.
> > > >
> > > > What else should we do? (i do have write privs btw)
> > > >
> > > > Is my system that unique (aka old) that we can leave well enough alone?
> > > >
> > > > I assume the built version should work ok, right?
> > > >
> > > > tom
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Thomas A. Moulton <address@hidden>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >           
> > > > > > Yes that is strange.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >             
> > > > > Kind of. It is a bug in old versions of autoconf. You can delete the
> > > > > matching lines in configure.in if you need to run configure more than
> > > > > once.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >           
> > > > > > I removed them and rebuilt and then it failed on
> > > > > >
> > > > > > bearoff.h line 50 - GMappedFile seems to not be defined
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's a data type, struct?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >             
> > > > > Yeah, it is an impolite way of telling you that you glib library is
> > > > > too old. Try the attached patch, and we'll see how far we get.
> > > > >
> > > > > Christian.
> > > > >
> > > > >
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