[Techtalk] Why is life without X important? (was: Re: info) X is not the point!

[Maria Blackmore]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:29:09AM +0100, Maria Blackmore wrote:
> > The info page often contains more information, but I don't really like the
> > navigation of the info pages, and the reader that was suggested
> > (pinfo) seems to like segfaulting ... I can't see this being helpful to
> > problem solving in a high-stress situation :)
> 
> Hmmmm, segfaulting, in my experience, tends to indicate binary
> incompatibility -- did you install the pinfo you're using from a binary
> package, because if you did, it might be worth trying to compile it from
> source.

Well .. I was kind of hoping that the version in debian stable would have
been compiled in a pretty much identical environment to the one that
exists on my machine ...

:)

> That way, it will be using all the right libraries, and not getting
> upset enough to segfault.  (Of course, if it segfaults *after* you've
> compiled it from source, then I'd say it was likely it had a bug...)

hmmm ...

it only links against curses (and libc and ld-linux of course)

I'll try to compile it from source later, and then if it doesn't segfault
I'll submit a debian bug report thingy

Maria