On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:53:02PM -0400, Tom Rathborne wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:12:28AM +1100, Darren R. C. KELLY wrote: > > [using gimp-1.0.4-3 ] > > Yow! Old! Oh, and *duh* I should mention that I'm using recent (post-1.1.27) CVS GIMP and gimp-freetype on Linux x86 and PPC. If compiler and/or Perl config is relevant let me know and I'll dredge them up. > I'm also having trouble with gimp-perl and text; I am trying to render > text through freetype or gdyntext and they keep segfaulting. I have > tracked the segfault down to this line in gimp-freetype: (line 187) > strncpy (vals.font_file, param[4].data.d_string, BUF_SIZE); > This is a safe operation because vals.font_file is allocated as a > char[BUF_SIZE]. Also, if I replace this line with something that prints > out param[4].data.d_string, it segfaults there. Obviously there is > something wrong with the params being passed in, but I can't figure > out where. > > It seems fine under script-fu, and the code for gimp-freetype looks > pretty clean, so I suspect a problem in the PDB/Gimp-Perl interface. > > Anyways I've attached a short script which demonstrates the failure > so if anyone has any insight into it I'd like to hear it. Tom -- -- Tom Rathborne tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.aceldama.com/~tomr/ -- "It's Like A Warzone, Deep Inside Of Me / When My Mind Becomes My Enemy" -- -- Praga Khan, "My Mind Is My Enemy"
