Trying to compile nedit-latest-sources-HEAD

Eddy De Greef degreef at imec.be
Fri Oct 13 15:47:04 CEST 2006


Eric Bouyoux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I successfully compiled nedit on Mandriva 2007. The goal was to see if
> the current CVS version of nedit still needs (or not) the
> XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS variable to be set to "1" because the nedit 5.5
> version pre-compiled for linux needs this variable. If not set, the X
> server crashes either when starting nedit or when exiting.
> The result is : CVS version still needs this variable.
> 
> To be honest, I don't know if I did everything properly.

It looks like you did. Thanks.
It's too bad the presumed workaround doesn't work.

Could you apply the attached debugging patch, compile it, run it, and 
send us the output that NEdit writes to stdout? You may need to redirect 
stdout to a file (nedit > debug.txt) if your server crashes immediately.

Eddy



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