[scribus] Scribus 1.3.3.13 crashes with signal 13

[Gregory Pittman]

John Culleton wrote:
> On Thursday 23 April 2009 04:06:18 pm Gregory Pittman wrote:
>   
>> John Culleton wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 23 April 2009 02:45:11 pm John Culleton 
>>>       
> wrote:
>   
>>>> Just downloaded 1.3.3.13.  I:
>>>> Bunzipped
>>>> cmake .
>>>> make
>>>> make install
>>>> and just got the usual spate of warning messages.
>>>>
>>>> But when I run Scribus it blows up on the splash
>>>> screen, just after a message about "fonts" apparently.
>>>>  Just prior to this 1.3.3.12 was running fine.  It
>>>> just tells me that it blew up on Sig 11.  I tried
>>>> rebooting the system but no help there.
>>>>
>>>> I can reinstall 1.3.3.12 possibly but I wonder if this
>>>> is a known problem?
>>>>
>>>> Linux Slackware 12.2
>>>>         
>>> Followon to the above: I killed the folder ./scribus in
>>> my home folder and recompiled/reinstalled 1.3.3.12. The
>>> only glitch is that all the items in "Extras" are
>>> doubled up. Where is this listing stored?
>>>
>>> BTW even after killing ./scribus 1.3.3.13 blows up on
>>> the splash screen as before. It was downloaded today
>>> and is I assume now "stable" at least officially.
>>>       
>> 1. did you delete/uninstall your old version?
>>
>> 2. you might try starting scribus from the command line
>> and noting the messages you get.
>>
>> Greg
>>     
>
> It gets worse by the hour. I redownloaded 1.3.3.13 from 
> SourceForge,  went through the usual machinations and now I 
> get a message that I have an obsolete package:
>
>  WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use 
> FindPkgConfig
>
> This is on the cmake step. 
>
> So I deleted CMakeCache.txt  and reran cmake . which got rid 
> of the error message. But it still errors off.  
>
> Time to go watch TV, and study the shiny new manual some 
> more. 
>   
I find that the PKGCONFIG warning is something you can safely ignore.

Greg