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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-15
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:14:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-15
- References: <526.289913296019$1256599507@news.gmane.org> <loom.20091029T010845-20@post.gmane.org>
Eric Backus wrote:
> I'm getting a segmentation fault when I try to use tput. The program runs
> successfully if you just ask it for a version number, or if asked for a non-
> existent capability, but gets a seg fault when asked about a real capability.
>
> $ tput sgr0
> Segmentation fault (core dumped) <---- this is wrong
> $ tput -V
> ncurses 5.7.20091024 <---- OK, latest version
> $ tput garbage
> tput: unknown terminfo capability 'garbage' <---- OK, this is correct
> $ type tput
> tput is hashed (/bin/tput)
>
> The seg fault didn't happen with the previous version. Is there anything else
> I should try to debug this? Would you like cygcheck output?
Short of compiling a debug version yourself and tracking down why it
crashes, no -- cygcheck probably won't help, because I can reproduce the
error here. It may be a while until I can fix this, tho; for now the
workaround is to revert to -14.
Thanks (sigh) for the report.
--
Chuck
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