[sword-devel] possibly serious problem with latest curl (fedora13-alpha)

Matthew Talbert ransom1982 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 13:41:54 MST 2010


Just to add to this, at least one person reported on our devel list
that BibleTime has the same problem.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
> We have a Xiphos bug report which details Xiphos' failure in the module
> manager:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2961704&group_id=5528&atid=105528
>
> The most recent observation is:
>
> | The crash only happens with curl-7.20.0 which is what is in Fedora 13.
> | The issue is caused by either a regression in curl from curl-7.19.7 to
> | curl-7.20.0, or a problem with the sword library interaction with the
> | new changes in curl-7.20.0.
>
> I don't have any spare hardware onto which to install F13a; I tried to
> install it in a VBox VM, but a major glitch of this alpha release is
> that they have neglected the needed framebuffer driver for VBox, so I
> can't install F13a properly in a VM at all.  (That install bug has been
> reported and due to be fixed for beta.)
>
> Can anyone shed some light?  Is anyone acquainted with recent curl
> updates and details?
>
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