Bug 287229

Summary:	=media-libs/freeglut-2.6.0_rc1 crashes with code 2.4.0 didn't
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stefan Huber <shuber>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	axiator, jeremy.william.murphy
Priority:	High	Keywords:	REGRESSION
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2871280&group_id=1032&atid=101032
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	simple crashing code

Description Stefan Huber 2009-10-01 13:02:03 UTC

As described by bug #2871280 and #2797884 at the freeglut bug tracking site [1], there are quite basic bugs in freeglut-2.6.0 that were not present in 2.4.0. Hence it is unclear to me why this version has been marked as stable wrt to bug #282290 (stabilization of xorg-server-1.6.3) as noted in portage ChangeLog file.

As an illustration take the simple code attached and look at the segfault produced by a simple glutCreateWindow. Note that this code worked with freeglut-2.4.

In my opinion it should be re-considered to keyword freeglut-2.6 again.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=1032&atid=101032

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
g++ main.cpp -lglut -o main; ./main

Comment 1 Stefan Huber 2009-10-01 13:03:28 UTC

Created attachment 205762 [details]
simple crashing code

Comment 2 Stefan Huber 2009-10-01 13:07:25 UTC

Sorry, but for some strange reason glutInit* were renamed to glutit*. Please take this into account.

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-01 13:12:38 UTC

Reverted back to ~amd64. Thanks for reporting.

Comment 4 Jeremy Murphy 2010-06-01 23:24:12 UTC

This doesn't crash for me and I've compiled and tested a number of other OpenGL examples and tutorials with freeglut-2.6.0, so could you (Stefan) please test again?  Maybe there was just something weird with your set-up at the time.  If some others could test too that would be great.  FYI I'm using gcc-4.3.4 and glibc-2.10.1.

freeglut-2.4.0 is from 2005, it would be really nice to stabilize 2.6.0.

Comment 5 Stefan Huber 2010-06-02 07:08:24 UTC

I confirm that the problem is gone now and I also left a note at the freeglut bug tracker (which never got attention). Due to the old call stack I guess that there was an interference with the Intel drivers. Since Oct 2009 a few Intel driver versions passed by and one of them may have resolved the problem.

On my amd64 system I currently use:
xf86-video-intel-2.9.1, mesa-7.7.1, glibc-2.10.1-r1, gcc-4.4.3-r2