[Scribus] scribus cvs 1.1.1 segfaults

[Paul]

Hi,

> > Looking at the source, the only time when font size is set, is after a
> > font has been found and even then, the size is set to 12 point.
> > 
> > You don't have any fonts in there which have become corrupt?

> Well, I only use fonts from Debian Sid... so it shouldn't. Moreover,
> scribus 1.1.0 doesn't complain.

I don't have the sources to 1.1.0 to hand (blush, blush) so can't
remember if anything had changed in there.

> Anyway, even if it finds some corrupted fonts, should Scribus crash, or
> just ignore the bad fonts ?

That depends. The font addition routine doesn't check the fonts - it
just reads them in and adds them to the internal list. The crash would
come after then when it tries to use them. Have you tried renaming the
.scribus/scribusrc file so a new one is regenerated? I doubt it will
make any difference, it could just be your default font is causing
problems.

> BTW, how can I build Scribus with debugging symbols, if it can help now
> or another day ? I've tried to build after configuring with
> --enable-debug=yes, but it gives no such symbols, according to
> gdb. Another way I would have missed ?

Franz did place an enable debug in the configure script, but due to work
pressures, I didn't have time to implement it. This has to be one of the
biggest swines about writing for Open Source projects.

> Thanks anyway for this great piece of software :)

You're welcome.

I do have some webstats from scribus.org. Over 7000 individual (i.e.
different IP addresses) of the latest tarball in 21 days. The most
popular pages on the site are downloads, changes and the documentation.

It looks like it has been money well earned. According to my other logs,
the downloads from CVS and the website accounted for an average of 1.3%
load over the 21 days. Hardly a blip! Nothing like having the bandwidth
:-)

TTFN

Paul
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