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Subject: Re: xdvi: SIGSEGV in XtInitialize
References: <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 56 DOT 0309151709090 DOT 685 AT eos>
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:38:30 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309151709090.685@eos> (Brian Ford's message of
 "Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:18:16 -0500 (CDT)")
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Brian Ford writes:

> Sorry to be so tearse.  Let me explain.
>
> The Xt library has not yet been compiled under Cygwin 1.5.x.  Until it is,
> it is unsafe for use by apps compiled under 1.5.x.  This is a side effect
> of the 64 bit implementation method choice.
>
> Does that help, or is it still to vauge?

That's quite clear.  tetex (and any other packages linking to libXt)
should not have been rebuilt and released for 1.5.x yet.  Executables
such as xdvi will be broken until libXt is available for 1.5.x (when
is this planned to happen?), and those packages must be built again.

We should find out which executables are affected, this fact should be
advertised on the cygwin list, and package maintainers must be
notified on cygwin-apps.

Jan.

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org


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