Re: [Visualpython-users] Bug in how visualpython is calling gdk_gl?

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

Unfortunately, I don't know how to interpret a Linux backtrace. It seems 
unlikely (though I admit not impossible) that it's a problem with how 
Visual calls gdk_gl, since VPython works on other Linux distributions.

You built Visual 5.13 for Python 2.6.2, which seems safe; Python 2.6.4 
introduced some problems with respect to applications such as Visual 
that depend on the Boost libraries. Here is a relevant note from the 
"Recent developments" section of vpython.org:

2009-12-23 Visual 5.14 released for Windows for any version of Python 
2.6. This fixes a problem that until the development of Boost 1.41 it 
was not possible to build an installer for Visual that worked with 
Python 2.6.4. Visual 5.14 is otherwise identical to Visual 5.13. Work is 
proceeding to deal with the same problem on Macintosh (work completed 
2010-01-23, thanks to help from Mirko Bordignon). For Linux, simply use 
Boost 1.41 to build Visual.

Are there any knowledgeable Fedora users reading this list who can help 
Thomas? Are there readers of this list who have been using VPython on 
Fedora?

Bruce Sherwood

On 4/16/2010 3:19 PM, Thomas Spura wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm currently packaging python-visual for fedora and already recieved a
> bug report, with a crash. The main python maintainer believes, that this
> could be a bug in how visualpython is calling gdk_gl.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm pretty new to the code of visualpython, so hopefully
> you could help here a bit...
>
> Here is the bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580984
>
> Backtrace:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=405599
>
>
> Thanks,
>    Thomas
>
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