This is twenty years dead terminal emulator that has multiple build bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/882169 https://bugs.gentoo.org/894620 https://bugs.gentoo.org/712894 https://bugs.gentoo.org/932284 https://bugs.gentoo.org/920478 https://bugs.gentoo.org/907400 https://bugs.gentoo.org/943891 At least three of them are trivially fixable, but: The package itself, with it's build system and it's code, fundamentally broken, both in build system that uses sed to generate headers, and in code, that assumes 32-bit only world: Bool read_32bit_property (Window w, Atom property, CARD32* trg) { Bool res = False; if (w != None && property != None && trg) { Atom actual_type; int actual_format; unsigned long bytes_after; union { unsigned char *uc_ptr ; long *long_ptr ; }data; unsigned long nitems; data.long_ptr = NULL ; res = (XGetWindowProperty (Xdisplay, w, property, 0, 1, False, AnyPropertyType, &actual_type, &actual_format, &nitems, &bytes_after, &data.uc_ptr) == 0); /* checking property sanity */ res = (res && nitems > 0 && actual_format == 32); if (res) trg[0] = data.long_ptr[0]; if (data.long_ptr && nitems > 0) XFree (data.long_ptr); } return res; } This is a function that gets Xorg properties, checks that they are 32 byte long and tries to put them into internal variables. There's no read_64bit_property. Properties it's often tries to get are pointers. It tries to do this on 64bit system. This and analogous functions are used everywhere. There are also modern, maintained, visually pretty terminal emulators with transparent background.
no, USE=xgetdefault doesn't switch that crazy accessor off.
USE=xgetdefault adds -std=gnu89 to compiler flags. This is crazy, please drop this.
Yes, I think we should treeclean aterm. I kept it around at imirkin's request, but he hasn't addressed bugs in a timely manner. Since I know of no other users, I think he should just keep an ebuild in a local overlay.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a873f6f286ca6b09a5756c3a921991070717d225 commit a873f6f286ca6b09a5756c3a921991070717d225 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2025-04-02 01:38:02 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-04-02 01:38:02 +0000 package.mask: Last rite x11-terms/aterm Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/949960 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
(In reply to Matt Turner from comment #3) > Yes, I think we should treeclean aterm. I kept it around at imirkin's > request, but he hasn't addressed bugs in a timely manner. Since I know of no > other users, I think he should just keep an ebuild in a local overlay. Seems fair enough. The bugs are trivially fixable/ignorable, but carrying dubious package patches in gentoo portage is probably not the right approach either. (Like that pointer size mismatch thing.) I'll keep it locally, since I'm probably the last user of aterm.
(In reply to Ilia Mirkin from comment #5) > (In reply to Matt Turner from comment #3) > > Yes, I think we should treeclean aterm. I kept it around at imirkin's > > request, but he hasn't addressed bugs in a timely manner. Since I know of no > > other users, I think he should just keep an ebuild in a local overlay. > > Seems fair enough. The bugs are trivially fixable/ignorable, but carrying > dubious package patches in gentoo portage is probably not the right approach > either. (Like that pointer size mismatch thing.) > > I'll keep it locally, since I'm probably the last user of aterm. just for info, you are not last user, i use aterm too. i was long-term xterm user, but since there is some problems with xterm+hwaccel, i found aterm as acceptable replacement. if moved it out portage, i will keep it local too.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f8a2b033677844be434eb3751d1aaae05e31cbb3 commit f8a2b033677844be434eb3751d1aaae05e31cbb3 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2025-05-02 17:29:43 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-05-02 17:33:05 +0000 x11-terms/aterm: Delete Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/949960 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 6 -- x11-terms/aterm/Manifest | 1 - x11-terms/aterm/aterm-1.0.1-r6.ebuild | 92 ---------------------- .../files/aterm-1.0.1-configure-clang16.patch | 23 ------ x11-terms/aterm/files/aterm-1.0.1-deadkeys.patch | 35 -------- .../files/aterm-1.0.1-display-security-issue.patch | 24 ------ x11-terms/aterm/files/aterm-1.0.1-dpy.patch | 28 ------- .../aterm/files/aterm-1.0.1-remove-streams.patch | 36 --------- x11-terms/aterm/metadata.xml | 21 ----- 9 files changed, 266 deletions(-)
