On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:06:07 -0700, tom b wrote:
ran inkscape & got "Segmentation fault" & wouldn't run
I'm going to investigate this now. It happens for me as well now *but* on Fedora Core 1 the very same package runs just fine. Judging from the backtrace of the crash something is trashing the stack, and given that the exact same binary works on older distros but NOT on newer like FC2, Debian Unstable and now I guess Yoper it looks like some library broke the ABI but didn't bump the soname.
At least, this is my current theory. I'll try tracking down what changed. But it would not surprise me in the slightest if this sort of ABI breakage was more common than expected: the practice of rebuilding packages continuously for every distro revision is almost certainly hiding some kinds of ABI breakage.
thanks -mike (who is still curious why it didn't install sigc++ first, but never used yoper so maybe it's different in some subtle way)