I'll apply the change but I want to understand how else to free font
structures. "man XFreeFontInfo" says that the names arguments should be 0
if only the fontstructs should be deleted and not the names.
Did you try replacing it by: free(fs);
otherwise there will be a memory leak.
As soon as I've XFree v4 running I can investigate more.
-- Fons
Valentine Kouznetsov wrote:
>
> Hi, in order to fix the problem you need to comment one line
> in X11_GX11Gui.cxx file:
> void TGX11::FreeFontStruct(FontStruct_t fs)
> {
> // Free font structure returned by GetFontStruct().
>
> // XFreeFontInfo(0, (XFontStruct *) fs, 1);
> }
>
> The XFreeFontInfo call SHOULD be commented. I've fixed described problem in
> this way and reported already for ROOT mainteiners at CERN/FNAL.
> Ths problem appears since the new version of XFree-v4 has different
> meaning of XFreeFontInfo. I'll recomend all of you to recompile your
> root package. For my station (RedHat 6.1 with XFree v4) the problem
> disappeared.
>
> Valentine.
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Nick van Eijndhoven wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> > Maybe this is also related to the problems I encountered in
> > certain canvas actions (as reported to the ROOT team) on
> > windows98 when I updated from 2.22/10 to 2.23/12.
> > These problems however were not encountered on WindowsNT.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
> > Alexander Zvyagin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 Carsten.Brandau@strz.uni-giessen.de wrote:
> > >
> > > >Recently I updated my X-Server (Suse Linux 6.3, Kernel 2.2.13,
> > > >ROOT 2.23/12) from XFree 3.3.5 to XFree 4.0. Now, whenever I try
> > > >to start things of the ROOT-GUI (e.g invoking TBrowser from CINT) I
> > > >get a lot of segfaults scrolling through the window...
> > > >The same is true if I use compiled code.
> > > >I also tried to recompile root from the source, but still had the same
> > > >segfaults.
> > > >All the stuff used to work before the change, and up to now, ROOT
> > > >is the the only programm I have troubles with wtih the new XFree.
> > > >I know that XFree 4.0 is in a very early stage and it may be a X
> > > >bug, but are there any ideas about this problem ?
> > >
> > > I have EXACTLY the same expierence with ROOT and XFree 4.0. The important
> > > note is:
> > > > ROOT is the the only programm I have troubles with wtih the new XFree
> > >
> > > P.S. I use Slackware-7.0 Linux.
> > >
> > > With best wishes,
> > > Alexander Zvyagin.
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Nick van Eijndhoven mailto:nick@phys.uu.nl http://www.phys.uu.nl/~nick
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