pcre, glib

I am fixing something that may not have anything to do with the recently discovered crashes of Gimp and NicoEdit, but you never know.

The 'pcre' package was compiled in T2 with the '--enable-utf8' configure option, however I discovered sometime ago that the configure script in the 'glib' package reports that does not provide unicode support and refuses to use the pcre library.

Back when I first discovered that (early Quirky), I recompiled pcre with this extra option: '--enable-unicode-properties' and then glib was happy. Here is the complete configure:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties

So, I have done this again. I have recompiled pcre 8.0 and uploaded the PETs:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/pcre-8.00-1-w5.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/pcre_DEV-8.00-1-w5.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/pcre_DOC-8.00-1-w5.pet

I have recompiled glib 2.24.2:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-selinux --disable-fam --with-pcre=system

Here are the PETs:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/glib-2.24.2-1-w5.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/glib_DEV-2.24.2-1-w5.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/glib_DOC-2.24.2-1-w5.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/glib_NLS-2.24.2-1-w5.pet

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Comments

pcre, glib
Username: ttuuxxx
Hi Barry I also started fresh earlier today and only compiled pcre-8.10, glib-2.24.2 and then rebooted clean, test nicoedit first to make sure it crashes, then Install just the 2 pets, no dev's. And nicoedit worked, I compiled it similar to your code but enabled 2 extra's configs in pcre --enable-pcregrep-libz link pcregrep with libz to handle .gz files --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 link pcregrep with libbz2 to handle .bz2 files So nicoedit works out of the box, but when I ran it in the terminal it gave me this error (nicoedit:26179): GtkSourceView-CRITICAL **: gtk_source_language_manager_get_language: assertion `id != NULL' failed does this happen with your packages? maybe gtksourceview might need fixing also. ttuuxxx

gettext and gtksourceview
Username: ttuuxxx
"Well I compiled the latest gettext and gtksourceview to see if that would fix the error and its still there. Well that's it for tonight, maybe Its gtk2, T2 has some patches.http://t2-project.org/packages/gtk+.html ttuuxxx

pcre, glib reverted
Username: BarryK
"I have reverted these, as it doesn't fix Gimp.

pcre, glib reverted
Username: ttuuxxx
"Hi Barry if you manually add this patch to gimp sources it will work fine, The package I compiled used it and it doesn't crash even with the older glib compile in Wary doesn't crash it. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=172474 ttuuxxx

pcre, glib un-reverted
Username: BarryK
"Sometimes what we are doing is a real balancing act. I have just tested a pristine 096 with the new NicoEdit 2.5.3 -- and guess what, it crashes at File -> Open, both with and without utf8 locale! I had previously compiled it with the updated glib/pcre. So, I recompiled in the Wary 096 (without the updated glib/pcre) -- it still crashes. Hmmm. I don't know. Anyway, I have taken the easy way out and restored the updated glib/pcre, as announced at start of this thread.

hi
Username: hi
"fwiw: just installed the 2.5.3 of nicoedit only, and it then crashed then the updated pcre, still crashed then the updated glib, no crash. Previously had utf8 and original nicoedit. Now with utf8 and new nicoedit.

glib-atomic
Username: ttuuxxx
"Hi Barry I was building a new backend for 4.3 and well the latest glib produces an error about gatomic, I managed to find a patch, it was like looking for a needle in hay stack. so here's the patch for safe keeping ttuuxxx http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=35915

Re glib patch
Username: BarryK
"ttuuxxx, Thanks, I have downloaded it.

Tags: wary