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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Fwd: Possible cause of kivio problems
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date:       2001-04-30 21:37:42
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anybody have some ideas?

>From: Ben Burton <benb@acm.org>
>To: konold@kde.org
>Subject: Fwd: Possible cause of kivio problems
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:32:14 -0500
>X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2]
>Cc: Shawn Gordon <shawn@thekompany.com>
>
>
>Hi.  Sorry, I tried to send this to kde-core-devel having forgotten that it
>was read-only.  Anyway, it's regarding the kivio problems that are being
>discussed.  Perhaps everyone already knows what I write below, but if so then
>nobody has written back to tell me. :)
>
>Thanks,
>         Ben.
>
>----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>Subject: Possible cause of kivio problems
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:23:29 -0500
>From: Ben Burton <benb@acm.org>
>To: kde-core-devel@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
>
>
>Hi.  I've written this to a mailing list and to a kivio developer but nobody
>has conformed or denied my suspicions.  Basically I believe the reason the
>connector tool is no longer working is because libkiviopart.so is no longer
>directly linked to /usr/bin/kivio; instead it is being dlopened and as a
>result straight_connector.ksp can no longer find symbols it needs from
>libkiviopart.so.
>
>I currently package kivio (and koffice) for Debian, and I had a 4/4/2001 cvs
>snapshot that worked and the beta1 which does not, and the change I cite as a
>possible culprit certainly took place between those two points in time.  It
>also fits that fact that the kivio developers are confused, since the change
>in question was a koffice-wide modification of makefiles having nothing to do
>with kivio specifically.
>
>Below I have included clips from earlier emails I have sent.
>
>Ben.
>
>----------
>(sent to kde-devel, Apr 26)
>
>My startup messages show that the dlopen() for the straight_connector plugin
>is failing.  I added a statement to output dlerror() and I now have the
>following messages on startup:
>
>kivio:    desktopEntryPath=Office/kivio.desktop   library=libkiviopart
>kivio: KivioConfig - created
>kivio: KivioConfig::KivioConfig() - StencilBackgroundType: 0
>kivio: KivioConfig::KivioConfig() - StencilBackgroundFile:
>kivio: KivioConfig::KivioConfig() - StencilBackgroundColor: 75 210 255
>kivio: KivioPluginStencilSpawner::load() -
>/usr/share/apps/kivio/autoloadStencils/straight_connector.ksp is not a dll
>kivio: /usr/share/apps/kivio/autoloadStencils/straight_connector.ksp:
>undefined symbol: x__12KivioStencil
>
>The last two lines are those of particular interest.  As far as I can tell
>(and I quite possibly have no idea what I'm talking about), the library
>straight_connector.ksp can't find the symbols from libkiviopart.so.  The last
>version of KOffice I compiled worked fine; this was a snapshot from 4 April.
>I notice that since then the lib*part libraries have moved from /usr/lib to
>/usr/lib/kde2 and appear now to be dlopened instead of directly linked.
>Perhaps this relates to the cause of the problem?
>
>----------
>(sent to lndshark@speakeasy.net, Apr 26)
>
>My guess is it is the fact that libkiviopart.so has moved from /usr/lib to
>/usr/lib/kde2 and is no longer directly linked to the binary that is causing
>the problems, since that is a major change that happened between the working
>4 April snapshot and the problematic (for me) beta1.  I tried to hunt for
>where libkiviopart.so was being dlopened, but I'm afraid I got lost with my
>poor knowledge of kparts/etc.
>
>----------
>(sent to lndshark@speakeasy.net, Apr 26)
>
>The makefiles have been touched and retouched.  The change of which I am
>particularly suspicious - which I want to say is the cause of the broken
>connector tool problems - is from version 1.8 to version 1.9 (April 9):
>
>http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/koffice/kivio/kiviopart/Makefile.am.
>diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
>
>--
>
>Ben Burton (benb@acm.org)
>http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/
>
>Director of Training
>Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee
>
>When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.
>         - Oscar Wilde


Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
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