[swarm-hackers] Nevermind my Ubuntu compile problem. Now swarm doesn't work in the same old way with blt :(

[Paul Johnson]

I slept, woke up, removed the swarm source code, got a fresh copy, did all the 
usual crap, and it built.

I don't know why it compiled this time. Between times, I changed automake from 1.11 to 1.10.  I suspect I had damaged 
the source code by making some mistake, and when I kept trying over and over to build.

I also searched randomly in the ubuntu package list, thinking they may have repackages things in a way that surprises 
us.  I found these packages and installed them, but I don't think Swarm is using them.

ii  libffcall1                           1.10+2.41-3                            
         Foreign Function Call Libraries
ii  libffcall1-dev                       1.10+2.41-3                                     Foreign Function Call Libraries 
(development

After installing that, I am  back to the point we were at last summer-blt 2.4 
crashes like so:

$ ./heatbugs
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  4 (RenderCreatePicture)
  Serial number of failed request:  2926
  Current serial number in output stream:  2932

I have seen an email from Marcus indicating that the Fedora 12 folks had a patch for blt to address this, I'll see if I 
can track it down.

The ubuntu guys claim they have fixed it, but I don't see any improvement.  The 
other users don't seem to see it either.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359857



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