xchat2 - perl plugin makes xchat2 core dump

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 14:12, Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:13:18 -0400
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip other discussion>
> 
> > Send me the script you're using, and let me know exactly the steps
> > you're using.  I don't have any xchat Perl scripts.  Perhaps there is a
> > problem with using the plug-in.
> > 
> > Joe
> 
> I renamed my ~/.xchat2 directory and tried a clean startup.  And I
> can load the perl.so module without crashing xchat2.  Note that the
> warning about not being able to preload is still present, but it
> does not crash:
> 
>    AutoLoad failed for:
>    /usr/X11R6/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.so
> 
>    No xchat_plugin_init symbol; is this really an xchat plugin?
> 
> The perl script I was using was an fserve:
> 
>   http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~awerth/obsidian/
> 
> The version I was successfully using prior to the last ports update was:
> 
>   http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~awerth/obsidian/obsidian-0.9.2-pre1.tar.gz
> 
> I have tried other versions but with the same results.  I also
> tried a couple of other perl scripts including the one that comes
> with the distribution:
> 
>   /usr/ports/irc/xchat2/work/xchat-2.0.8/plugins/perl/sample_script.pl
> 
> I can load the perl.so module, but trying to use any perl script
> causes the core dump.  So I'm not sure its the perl scripts.
> 
> Again, thanks for looking at this!

I did some more digging, and this looks like a Perl bug.  I would
recommend sticking with 5.8.2.  Previous versions of xchat didn't use
newCONSTSUB which seems to have a problem in perl 5.6.1.  I looked at
some other code that uses this function, and I can't figure out why
xchat doesn't work, but I was able to figure out there is a bug in Perl
5.6 related to the DynaLoader and shared objects.

Joe

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> 
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