[scribus] 1.5.0 fails for me.

[john Culleton]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:53:20 +0100
Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:

> 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
> 
More likely, I upgraded some libraries to help with Inkscape and
accidentally got ahead of the game.  So if you or anyone can
identify a library used by 1.5.0 but not 1.4.0 then that is the
culprit. 

Both partitions were created from the same Slackware 13.37 disk.
So the differences should point to the error. I'll try ls -l of
each lib to a file followed by diff.

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