[scribus] 1.5.0 fails for me.

[Craig Bradney]

On 3/17/12 6:01 PM, john Culleton wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:56:41 -0400
> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 
>>>
>> here's a mini-tutorial on backtrace:
>>
>> you need to have gdb on your system.
>>
>> then in console, type 'gdb /your/path/to/scribus1.50/bin/scribus'
>> then type 'run'
>> after the crash, type 'bt' and you get the backtrace
>>
>> Greg
> 
> Here's an update. I built a new Slackware partition and got 1.5.0
> to compile and work. But that version won't work on my old
> partition. So there is something that is called by Scribus 1.5.0
> that I have incautiously updated, maybe GTKMM. The same thing is
> not called by 1.4.x.
> 
> I'll do the backtrace bit and try to narrow it down. Worst case
> I'll just replace the libs etc. on the old partition with those
> on the new one.

If you are doing this kind of thing, you are likely breaking a lot. You should not just randomly
copy executables or libraries between 2 different systems. This sort of process is likely where your
problem has started. Stop trying to fix the Scribus issue, and fix the system.

Craig