[gcompris-devel] gcompris-4.2 segmentation fault on startup. Fix. -Thanks!

[Richard Boyce]

Thanks all! Sorry that I made it a bit too complicated.

Coming from version 1.0, version 4.2 is has a come a long ways!
Richard


SashaK wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On my machine 'gcompris-4.2' crashes when my daughter starts it. This
>happens when env variables LANG, LC_MESSAGES and LC_ALL are not exported
>(as in my case). This small patch will fix it.
>
>Thanks for great game - my four year old daughter is happy.
>
>Sasha.
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>diff -wru gcompris-4.2_orig/src/gcompris/properties.c gcompris-4.2/src/gcompris/properties.c
>--- gcompris-4.2_orig/src/gcompris/properties.c	2003-11-25 01:03:55.000000000 +0200
>+++ gcompris-4.2/src/gcompris/properties.c	2003-12-20 20:26:08.000000000 +0200
>@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
>   if(locale == NULL)
>     locale = getenv("LANG");
> 
>-  if (!strcmp(locale, "C"))
>+  if (locale != NULL && !strcmp(locale, "C"))
>     {
>       tmp->locale		= gnome_config_get_string ("/gcompris/Preferences/locale=en_US.UTF-8");
>     } 
>  
>

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Richard Boyce
NLM Predoctoral Fellow
Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics
University of Washington
boycer at u.washington.edu