From kde-devel  Sun Aug 01 12:43:42 1999
From: Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 12:43:42 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: kdvi is broken by glibc2.1.1,  and maybe orphaned?
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Duncan Haldane wrote:

> *** kdvi seems to be orphaned, AND it's broken with glibc-2.1.1****.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is to draw peoples attention to kdvi, which is showing its age,
> and seems unmaintained....  There are problems needing fixing ASAP.
> kdvi is a crucial part of the TeX system for KDE.   
> 
>   ** can this be done for kde-1.1.2 ? kdvi has become **UNUSABLE**
>     with RedHat 6.0 ..... (and maybe other glibc-2.1.1 systems (?) )
> 
> 
> (1) kdvi is broken with glibc-2.1.1 (RedHat 6.0) but not glibc-2.0
> (RedHat-5.2).   Many dvi files (such as from the sample LaTeX file
> sample2e.tex) cause it to terminate when getenv() reports a NULL
> environment variable (that should not be null because it is was supposedly set
> by an earlier putenv call) and this is trapped by one of two assert() tests.
> There is an empirical workaround described below (A).

I couldn't get B) to work even compile... therefore only a small patch for
A), sorry.

bye,
Peter

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