[TiLP-devel] Gentoo stuff

[Brent R. <bre...@cc...>]

Hi roms,

I'm starting a new thread to address some of the stuff related to 
Gentoo Linux that I mentioned in my earlier email.

First of all, I'll show you which patches are being applied. I have 
included them as attachments (tell me if you prefer me to just put the 
text  'in-line' in my email). The formatbug patch does not apply 
cleanly to tilp-6.71 (I do not know if this was a fixed bug in 6.71, or 
if the source just changed enough so that the patch does not work). 
However, the keepdir patch still works, but I am unsure of its 
usefulness.

It seems both patches were a result of one bug in Gentoo's Bugzilla. I 
think the keepdir patch is to fix problems with the Makefile attempting 
to modify stuff outside of the PREFIX that was set for it. And I think 
that the other patch was to fix some segfaults related to locale 
issues. There was also a problem related to compiling TiLP against Gtk 
2.4, which the Gentoo ebuild fixes with this line (which happens right 
before the ebuild runs the configure command):
sed -e 's/GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED/GTK_DEPRECATED/g' -i src/Makefile.in

For reference, here are the recent Bugzilla entries for TiLP:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40263
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45599

And here is the appropriate part of the ebuild Changelog:

*tilp-6.68-r2 (13 Apr 2004)

   13 Apr 2004; Patrick Kursawe <pho...@ge...> 
tilp-6.68-r1.ebuild,
   tilp-6.68-r2.ebuild, files/formatbug.patch:
   Traced bug #40263 to a buffer overflow, provided patch.

   31 Mar 2004; Patrick Kursawe <pho...@ge...> tilp-6.06.ebuild,
   tilp-6.68.ebuild:
   Cleanup

   30 Mar 2004; Patrick Kursawe <pho...@ge...> 
tilp-6.68-r1.ebuild:
   Fixing for gtk 2.4, see bug #45599

*tilp-6.68-r1 (29 Mar 2004)

   29 Mar 2004; Patrick Kursawe <pho...@ge...> 
tilp-6.68-r1.ebuild,
   files/6.68-keepdir.patch:
   Some changes because of bug #40263

Let me know what you think of this so far, and the I can tell you what 
problems are happening with the new 6.71 version of TiLP on Gentoo.

Thanks for your time,

Brent Redeker