Bugzilla Bug 31743

Wings3d emerges fine (package versions erlang-9c-r1, esdl-0.93.0909, and
wings-0.98.15a), and appears to be functional, but freezes when I try to perform
"open" or "save as" operations (possibly others). The "save" operation doesn't
freeze wings; in fact, it doesn't appear to actually do anything. I haven't
played with it much yet, as the first thing I tried to do upon running it was
open an existing model, but what little I did try of the rest of the program
worked perfectly.

I realise that the version of the esdl package listed above is masked, but the
same problem occurs with the "stable" package version.

Additionally, there are newer versions of wings available that could be packaged.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Emerge wings (erlang, esdl, wings)
2.Run wings and select File->[Save|Save As|Open]
3.Sigh
Actual Results:  
Wings freezes. To be more precise, the window no longer redraws, so the
application is essentially useless; however erlang doesn't crash, and no error
messages are written to the console.

Expected Results:  
Open a file selection dialog (could this be the problem? It certainly is one
link between all the failing operations) and perform the requested operation.

Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test6)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 crypt cups encode foomaticdb libg++ libwww mad pdflib spell xml2 xmms
gdbm berkdb slang tcltk sdl tcpd pam perl imlib gtk -oss dga cscope X gtk2 gnome
alsa -qt -kde -debug mmx sse -3dnow acpi -apm -arts avi cdr dvd -esd -fbcon gif
gpm gstreamer imap joystick jpeg mikmod mozilla mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl
png quicktime readline samba ssl tiff truetype wmf xv zlib -nls -python java
-svgalib -svga -motif moznocompose moznoirc mozsvg"

Using XFree 4.30-r3 on a laptop; some specs: P4 2.8GHz (no hyperthreading),
512MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility, hardware 3D acceleration using the latest
ati-drivers (fglrx 3.2.8; hardware acceleration itself isn't problematic with
any other applications).

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I'm building a VRML avatar as a University assignment. Unfortunately, I have
zero budget for modelling tools; fortunately, I have Windows on the same laptop
(with working wings install). I'd like to be able to use it under Gentoo as
well, though, as I like to have as few reasons as possible to reboot my computer
(even UT2003 is installed under both OSes), and like showing off linux ;)

please try out wings-0.98.19b and re-open if it doesnt fix the problem