Re: [geomview-users] SaVi segfaulting when writing to a geomview pipe?

[<raj...@ij...>]

Try extracting files from the package without installing;
if there are separate patch files, you can see what they
are (and may need to apply them). At least some fedora
packages are like this.

Rajmund

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Lloyd Wood via geomview-users wrote:

> I'm dealing with the odd situation on linux where
> geomview -run savi
> works just fine if geomview and savi are installed as
> ubuntu packages, but if I compile savi 1.5.1 (matching
> the package) SaVi segfaults on first attempting to write to the
> pipe to geomview via fprintf.
>
>
> stdout is set up to point to geomview and dup'd, and there's
> a lot of error checking in that code to test for failures
> during setup. Those checks pass, but as soon as you fprintf
> to the pipe - boom, goodbye your compiled savi.
>
>
> This code hasn't changed (ie I'm not smart enough to change
> it) in years...
>
> Has something changed in stdlib or in how file pointers
>
> can be used and abused in gcc? Ideas to investigate  welcome.
>
> thanks
>
> Lloyd Wood
> http://savi.sf.net/
>
>
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