--- Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > On 18 Nov 2002 13:20:54 -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > Luckily fribidi (fribidi.sf.net) is rather easy to download and > > compile :-) BTW, the patch was against 0.10.4 (current release > > version). > > You underestimate the problem. User1 may have fribidi-0.9.0, User2 may > have fribidi-0.10.1 and User3 may have fribidi-0.10.4. fvwm should be > built successfully for all of them. It is only that User1 should get no > Bidi support while 2 others should get this support. So we can't start to > use any new fribidi features without also changing configure.in to work > correctly for User2 and UserN. In theory "make" should never fail.
You are absolutely correct; I wasn't thinking of that - my bad. As a workaround we/fvwm could require 0.10.4+ (akin to xpm's minimum library requirements, etc). Chances are whomever wants Bidi support, he/she would be more than willing to install a newer version of the library. I'm sure there are issues with that over simplification, but its a thought :-) Mucking with autotools is never fun. > > As was noted - I've tried the same exact code outside of fvwm and it > > worked flawlessly on thousands of examples (entire directories worth > > of files) without any issues. I will certainly stare at it again > > but without the ability to generate a controlled failure (ie. not > > having my entire session disappear on me :-) and without me knowing > > or having Xnest (or equivalent), I'm more likely to keep asking for > > help (ouch). > > I launched another X (this is safe with XFree86-4.2) from another virtual > console with fvwm running no config or a minimal config. I don't think you > need the exact commands to do this, but I may send you. I primarily have access to a Sun running solaris, thus I'm afraid its not much of an option. > > Could something within fvwm's own code be getting rubbed the wrong way ? > > Maybe. But I would try to narrow the "#if 0" code even more so that there > is still no problem. That would be interesting to see. Ideally it would be wonderful to simply run fvwm and this code under a debugger and single step around for a better feel for what is causing it to go into the weeds. In any regard, I'm all ears :-) Thanks a heap for the help and attention to this issue. - Nadim __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
