On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:16:18PM -0500, Simon Valiquette wrote: > By the way, I noticed that the compiler warned that eboard was linked > with a number of apparently unnecessary libraries like libpango. For > Lenny, it is best to keep it like it is now, but it would be a good idea > to look at it for Lenny+1.
Pango is part of GTK+ and automatically pulled in by pkg-config.
Okay, I think I found the real culprit. In various places, network.cc
limits output to non-control characters by comparing with 0x20. On x86,
char is signed and 0xFF will be (-1), thus being treated as control
character. On ppc, chars are unsigned AFAIK, and 0xFF will be (255), and
passed on to the rest of the code.
154 if (buffer.front()>=32)
219 if (c>=0x20)
294 if (c>=0x20)
My fix for the time being would be to duplicate behaviour as on x86,
using signed chars everywhere (as I suspect that other bugs might arise
otherwise). A patch to the source package is attached, would you please
try if that fixes the problem?
Kind regards,
Patrik
--- eboard-1.1.1/debian/rules~ 2009-01-22 21:14:25.000000000 +0100 +++ eboard-1.1.1/debian/rules 2009-01-22 21:15:05.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ configure: configure-stamp configure-stamp: patch-stamp dh_testdir - ./configure --prefix=/usr --data-prefix=/usr/share/games --man-prefix=/usr/share/man + ./configure --prefix=/usr --data-prefix=/usr/share/games \ + --man-prefix=/usr/share/man --extra-flags=-fsigned-char touch configure-stamp
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