CFT: google-earth crash fix (ports/160422 [1])

Rainer Hurling rhurlin at gwdg.de
Sun Apr 21 05:38:46 UTC 2013


On 20.04.2013 23:07 (UTC+2), Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 09:53:47PM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> On 20.04.2013 20:31 (UTC+2), Juergen Lock wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 08:08:46PM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>>>> On 20.04.2013 17:17 (UTC+2), Juergen Lock wrote:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>>  COURRAUD Cybil might have found at least one cause for the
>>>>> google-earth crashes on 9.0+, can people that saw the crash (and
>>>>> everyone else interested) please test the following update to make
>>>>> sure it's working for most people?
>>>>>
>>>>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/google-earth-5.2.1.1588-crashfixp-001.patch
>>>>
>>>> Hi Juergen,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info and the link. I just tried the patch with
>>>> GoogleEarth version 6.0.3.2197 on a 10.0-CURRENT amd64 (clang) and it
>>>> also seems to work.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps we should try to reintroduce version 6.0.3.2197? I do not
>>>> remember the reason(s) for going back to version 5.2.1.1588 ...
>>>>
>>> Hmm is the distfile for 6.0.3.2197 still public?
>>
>> I would think so, because I fetched it in the common way, i.e.
>>
>> fetch http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
>>
>>
>> the relevant part of my Makefile looks like this
>>
>> PORTNAME=       google-earth
>> PORTVERSION=    6.0.3.2197
>> #PORTREVISION=  1
>> PORTEPOCH=      1
>> CATEGORIES=     astro deskutils geography
>> MASTER_SITES=   http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/:current
>> DISTFILES=      GoogleEarthLinux.bin:current
>> DIST_SUBDIR=    ${PORTNAME}/${PORTVERSION}
>> EXTRACT_ONLY=   # none
>>
> Ok new patch here:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/google-earth-6.0.3.2197-crashfixp-001.patch
> 
>  Please give this a good testing everyone, especially if it crashed for you
> before...

Thanks for the new patch. For me it seems to work, especially it did not
crash until now. I hope that others will confirm this, too :)

Rainer

>  Thanx again, :)
> 	Juergen



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