audio/streamtuner core dumping (ports/79201 fixes - needs committed)

[Scott T. Hildreth]

Worked perfectly, thanks Randy.  Next time I'll try to pay attention to
what 
I am reading. :-)

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 13:42 -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:41:19 -0600
> "Scott T. Hildreth" <shild at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> >  
> > >     portupgrade -fR streamtuner-\* -x perl-\*
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I did this on 5.3, unfortunately still segfaults.
> 
> The above was just a correction to my original post so that anyone
> searching the archives wouldn't run into the same problem with
> /etc/make.conf getting undefined by using just portupgrade -fR and
> not excluding perl from the rebuild.  
> 
> >  
> > > Secondly and probably the most important is that the maintainer,
> > > ( Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort at brutele.be> ), submitted ports/79201
> > > which I can confirm fixes the core dumping on my 4.11-STABLE:
> > > 
> > >     http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050324152403.38E0A8649
> > > 
> > > Hopefully, someone will find some time to commit this before the
> > > 5.4-R rollout.
> 
> In order to fix audio/streamtuner, you can use the patch in ports/79201
> (above link) or wait until it has been comitted and update ports.
> 
> If you want to try to make a temporary local patch just to get
> streamtuner running, here is what I did (as root):
> 
> 	cd /usr/ports/audio/streamtuner
> 	mkdir files
> 	cd files
> 
> Create the file "patch-src::plugins::python::pst-main.c" in
> in the files/ directory with the following contents:
> 
> =====================================================================
> --- src/plugins/python/pst-main.c.orig  Thu Mar 24 11:15:11 2005
> +++ src/plugins/python/pst-main.c       Thu Mar 24 11:16:24 2005
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
>  {
>    gboolean status = FALSE;
>    PyObject *module;
> +  char *argv[] = { "" };
> 
>    if (! check_api_version(err))
>      return FALSE;
> @@ -109,6 +110,7 @@
>      }
> 
>    Py_Initialize();
> +  PySys_SetArgv(G_N_ELEMENTS(argv), argv);
>    PyEval_InitThreads();
> 
>    module = PyImport_AddModule("__main__");
> =====================================================================
> 
> Note that the "=======" is not part of the patch file and there are
> no trailing blank lines.  All the patch does is to add the two lines
> with a "+" to the psg-main.c file.
> 
> Then, audio/streamtuner is rebuilt with:
> 
> 	portupgrade -f streamtuner-\*
> 
> If all went well, then streamtuner should work as expected.
> 
> I did not modify the audio/streamtuner/Makefile as the PR does.
> The version number will not change using my approach.  I do this
> so that if there are any differences to the final commit, the
> version bump will cause it to be rebuilt with the latest patch
> from the commit.
> 
> After doing something like this locally, I make sure that the local
> patches won't affect future updates in this case by doing:
> 
> 	cd /usr/ports/audio/streamtuner
> 	mv files files-my-patch
> 
> This way, CVSup and portupgrade will ignore the "files-my-patch"
> directory for subsequent updates.  Usually, I remove the
> "files-my-patch" directory as soon as the commit has been made.
> 
> If you don't feel confident in juggling patches then I'd suggest
> waiting on ports/79201 to be committed.  
> 
> I hope this helps more than it confuses ;-)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Randy
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Scott T. Hildreth <shild at sbcglobal.net>