Help diagosing problem using xv(1) to display PNG images?

[David Wolfskill]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 03:47:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> ...
> > I rebuild FreeBSD daily, and update installed ports daily; above
> > was running:
> >
> > FreeBSD g1-252.catwhisker.org 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #418
> > r302600M/302639:1003505: Tue Jul 12 04:11:56 PDT 2016
> >  root at g1-252.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY  amd64
> >
> > My ports are all built under stable/10.  I was able to re-create the
> > symptoms while running stable/11:

I should have mentioned that my ports working copy is head @r418418.

> ...

> Wow! I have not though of xv for years! Probably last used it to process
> some EPS filed back about 12 years ago. First used it on VMS back in about
> 1990. I appreciated it so much that I sent John a check for a personal
> license ($25?) and received a hard-copy manual and a nice looking license
> certificate. Moved to ImageMagick about 4 or 5 years later, but continued
> to use xv now and again for things I didn't feel like taking the time to
> learn how to do in ImageMagick. The newest copyright I can find in the xv
> source is 1994.

:-}

> First, it sounds like the issue is almost certainly in xv(1). Sounds like a
> memory leak and xv failing to react properly to a failing malloc. It does
> not surprise me too much to see problems with memory.

OK; thanks for the "second set of eyes," there. :-)

> Have you reached out to John Bradley about this? Assuming it is personal
> use, I doubt John will refuse to help if you don't. His web site is still
> up and running. http://www.trilon.com/xv/ Then again, John may not remember
> much about it after over two decades.

Hadn't, as I wasn't at all clear that xv was at fault -- it, after all,
hadn't been changing.  :-}

> In the meantime, you might consider a switch to ImageMagick....

Turns out I had ImageMagik built & installed already... and using it,
the images render Just Fine (as well).

Thanks!  I'll see what I can figure out -- probably at a lower priority,
since I (now) have alternatives -- and then take appropriate action.

Peace,
david
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