Emerald Crashes (was: building compiz-fusion xml files from xml.in files)

vehemens vehemens at verizon.net
Tue Oct 23 21:57:44 PDT 2007


On Tuesday 23 October 2007 09:54:30 am you wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 21:15 -0700, vehemens wrote:
> > On Monday 22 October 2007 08:42:02 am Robert C. Noland III wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 00:12 -0700, vehemens wrote:
> > > > I'm attempting to build compiz-fusion from git, but unable to build
> > > > the xml files.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody know what the trick is?
> > >
> > > See my response, re: bcop.  I'll have 6.2/6.0 in ports in the next
> > > couple of days.
> >
> > Got 6.0 working last Thursday or Friday.  Dropped in with little pain and
> > it works well expect for the emerald crashes.
>
> Which crashes, I have two machines both of which have been running
> emerald without problems( on -current).  I just built a fresh -current
> laptop and currently emerald is frequently segfaulting when I close a
> window.  Specifically, If I close ccsm it hasn't failed to crash yet.
> I'm thinking that it may have something to do with the CFLAGS that one
> of my libraries was built with, but If that doesn't fix it, I'll be
> looking hard at emerald...
>
> What are your symptoms?  Any clear pattern?

No pattern other then window closures.  I saw a commit somewhere about staying 
with emerald 5.2.  Haven't tried it myself.


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