xchat2 - perl plugin makes xchat2 core dump

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 15:47, Randy Pratt wrote:
> uname -a:
>   FreeBSD kt.weeble.com 4.10-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE #0:
>   Wed Apr 28 14:23:07 EDT 2004
>   rpratt at kt.weeble.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i386
> 
> xchat version:
>   xchat2-2.0.8_1      An X11 IRC client using the GTK+ 2 toolkit
> 
> ports last updated:
>   Apr 22 14:17 /usr/sup/ports-all/checkouts.cvs:.
> 
> Note: I am a "casual user" of gnome2 so i did not run the gnome
> update script.  A complete list of installed ports can be seen at:
> 
>   http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/ports_list.txt
> 
> When starting xchat2, I see this failure:
> 
>    AutoLoad failed for:
>    /usr/X11R6/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.so
> 
>    No xchat_plugin_init symbol; is this really an xchat plugin?
> 
> It seems to miss finding the xchat-plugin.h but I'm not sure of that.
> 
> If I try to load the /usr/X11R6/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.so module,
> xchat will immediately core dump.
> 
> If its of any use, the core dump is also at:
>   http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/xchat.core

Not really, though a full backtrace with debugging symbols from your
machine might be.

> 
> I've deinstalled and rebuilt xchat but it makes no difference.
> The build output is at:
> 
>   http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/xchat_build.txt
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this or is it unique to my system?  Any
> suggestions would be much appreciated.

I have a 4.10-BETA machine with Perl 5.6.1, and the Perl plug-in loads
just fine for me.  In fact:

nm -D /usr/X11R6/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.so | grep xchat_plugin_init
00056500 T xchat_plugin_init

Joe


> 
> Thanks
> 
> Randy
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