[bt-devel] Showstopper bugs

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Gary Holmlund wrote:
>
>   
>> Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
>>     
>>> Another bug: when I quit BT it segfaults. Does this happen to others? It
>>> may not affect the user experience but should be fixed anyways.
>>>
>>>       
>> I am not seeing this. Do you have to do anything specific before closing
>> BT? I have tried both installing modules and canceling during installing
>> modules. If others are not seeing it perhaps it is specific to a version
>> of curl or Qt? What versions do you have? Is this ubuntu 9.10 or other?
>>     
>
> Kubuntu 8.04, Qt 4.4.1, curl 7.18.0.
>
> In modified SWORD Curl is initialized when the SWORD library is loaded
> (it's static code) - if you took off the comment before global_init in
> curlftpt.cpp. WebKit uses QtNetwork even if we don't use network classes
> explicitly. I guess they are both closed when the libraries are unloaded
> or destructed (I don't know what happens to dynamic libraries when
> program exits), not depending on what you do in the program.
>
> For me it's enough to open and quit BT with the modified SWORD. But with
> original Ubuntu SWORD package it doesn't segfault even if I install a
> module and then quit. This perplexes me because the default SWORD code,
> or actually the curl library, uses global_init once anyways when it's
> used. Can it depend on the order in which the libraries are loaded?
> E.g., if SWORD and curl is loaded first, then Qt.  With the old code
> curl would be initialized after Qt has been loaded and initialized,
> but with the new code curl would be initialized first.
>
> Can you test with both Linux and Windows?
>
>   Yours,
> 	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
> 	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
I tested it in windows (xp, qt 4.5.3, curl 7.19.5) and did not seen any 
problem. I did not get a chance to try on linux.

Gary