Bug 246177

Summary:	media-libs/libsdl comes with internal copies of Xorg libraries and crashes Xorg 1.5
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, maggu2810, rene.rheaume
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17431
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	251464, 249426
Attachments:	Crash where console is fubar, but we recovered the X trace

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-09 16:22:23 UTC

See the bug I added to the URL, the problem lies in the internal copy of Xxf86vm that SDL comes with. There is also an Xv copy in there. I guess that if we followed policy and made SDL use the system copies, it would be much better; there has to be one way to do so, I hope?

Thanks,
Diego

P.S.: the workaround I used for now was EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-video-x11-vm" that makes SDL work to an extent.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-11-09 20:39:47 UTC

it isnt as simple as you think.  they internalize and then modify.  see bug 115243.

best to just fix the issue in libsdl and open a report upstream so they'll eventually get to it if they havent already.

Comment 2 Stefan de Konink 2009-01-09 23:24:42 UTC

Now I saw this bug also when I move Gimp from one Virtual Desktop to another one within XFCE4. I think it is not only SDL,  I need to check if this is nvidia driver related.

Comment 3 Stefan de Konink 2009-01-22 19:04:57 UTC

Created attachment 179364 [details]
Crash where console is fubar, but we recovered the X trace

Maybe someone can take a peak if this is related. Again X has issues; and I want to blame Mozilla Firefox this time.

Comment 4 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-31 15:59:45 UTC

Stefan, your issue does not seem related, by the way the latest libsdl still has problems, and the extra econf workaround does fix the problem for me once again..