[SOLVED] Slackware-current, segfault when building (from source) dialog
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I've just built the 1.3_20181022 version using the SlackBuild and runs the hello msgbox just fine here in console and terminal emulators...
while I was there I also read this in the dialog.SlackBuild file
Code:
# Think twice (or more) before upgrading this - the latest versions completely
# destroy the careful formatting in the Slackware installer. While it's lost
# to history now for the most part, I was the original beta tester for dialog,
# which was created to support our installer. I even wrote the --infobox widget
# before the first release. While I appreciate the advances dialog has made in
# the years since then, I'm nnot about to quickly shoot myself in the foot again
# (think tar-1.13 ;-). If you are reading this and think that Slackware "needs"
# to have the latest dialog, I'm willing to listen to your rationale. However,
# unless it's been tested with the installer and every other script in Slackware
# that uses dialog and found to work, and you've already gotten any needed
# patches accepted upstream... well... I like this version. If it's got bugs,
# they aren't bugs that I'm running into often.
@ponce I answered in my first post. Segfault is of recent version, I built myself (maybe too much said). Yet artifact is up to original preinstalled version of dialog.
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