After applying the latest -current patches, including SDL 1.2.10, my SDL apps stopped working. Well, actually I checked only two them: One was a really simple one, and even though I recompiled it, I couldn't make it work. The other, BZFlag, crashed my X server. Anyone experiencing similar issues? (Possibly not relevant, but the kernel is 2.6.16.11).

Btw, reverting to SDL 1.2.9 solved the problem for now...

I've noticed a couple of things after an upgrade today:

The latest pango in current stops a few apps working - firefox, gaim and gkrellm I've noticed. The error is /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_intern_static_string.

The only way round it seems to be a downgrade. The other thing I found was that vim was compiled without gui support so gvim no longer works.

Don't know if pango affects sdl - do you get any error message?

The first app gave an error like "cannot load image", and as I said, BZFlag crashed my X server. But I didn't have any issues with pango and/or firefox/gaim etc. SDL seems to be the only thing broken so far.

my firefox works well with the latest pango and sdl

I had the same problem.

After the pango etc upgrade sound stopped in kde on my machine, it still works at the command prompt though.

I've experienced both problems. Firefox would not start with the new pango, showing the same undefined symbol, forcing me to drop back to the one I had before. About the only sdl app I use is Doom Legacy and it fails with a sdl error if I use any version >1.2.8. I hope when -current becomes 11 these problems will be resolved.

It seems the problem with SDL is common, but I'm surprised that pango is causing trouble. And I don't know why my Firefox is working allright.

But wait a minute:

undefined symbol: g_intern_static_string

This symbol should belong to the GLib library. Those having pango problems: Are you sure that you upgraded your Glib packages as well?

Yep - just checked again with versions at slackware.com

That's weird. I have glib2-2.10.3-i486-1.tgz, too and it works. This symbol was introduced in Glib 2.10, so those who don't have it must upgrade.

My sound came back by running alsamixer as user. Strange.

Can you try fetching glib again from the repositories and reinstalling. Maybe there was a problem with naming so that you have actually installed an old version.

Ah - that was stupid of me: It turned out that I had to recompile my NVIDIA drivers, that was all. I should've thought of that myself (I did a batch of upgrades, which included one to X, so the problem is irrelevant to sdl indeed).

Vim comes in two packages vim and xvim, the first is the commandline-only version and the second is the GUI-enabled version which contains gvim. I'm using it from current (it's 7.0, which kicks asses BTW) and is working just as it should.

On the other hand, I haven't got a single problem with pango/SDL, I don't have Firefox installed, tho'. But this problem doesn't appear with SeaMonkey.

The June 11th changelog has a new sdl-1.2.10-i486-2.tgz to fix a problem with png.
Does this fix the broken apps?

I will check it out and write the outcome here. Although things like Wesnoth and BZFlag work fine with the current one, I noticed a few problems in one or two other apps (errors like "can't load image"). Hopefully this one will fix it. My current concern is making BZFlag window opaque when compositing is on. SDL 1.2.10 Changelog says

But under XFCE, BZFlag is transparent (Wesnoth looks almost OK, except the very very faint "ghost" of the XFCE panel below).

Edit: Actually, I just remembered that BZFlag works OK but gives a segfault on exit. So it's not working 100% "fine".