Here's just a tip to those who are having problems running scribus on FreeBSD 4.8 STABLE or some similar platform. The problem I was having appeared after scribus built successfully. Upon running 'scribus', it locked up when scanning the various directories for plugins, fonts, or whatever.
It turns out that it was calling a fcntl(2) on a file descriptor that was previously closed. I couldn't figure out how to fix this in the source code, but the work around appears to be simple. Use a non-threaded libqt (not libqt-mt), and do not link with pthreads. That means append --disable-threading to the ./configure line. Sorry to say that a threaded scribus will not work, but that's better than the app locking up and not being usable at all. Regards, Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 467 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20030820/fb15539b/attachment.pgp
