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muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

http://searchmonkey.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

Doesn't work on Puppy 4 - gives "Segmentation Fault" error. Tried compiling from source - same results.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

Hi Joshas,

yes, I just rebooted into pup4 and it's seg-faulting. Oddly ldd is showing all dependencies as being met. It must be some Gtk discrepancy. Did it compile without comlaint on pup4?

One of these days I'll have to get around to sussing out proper usage of gdb to track these sort of problems down.

Lobster · Official Crustacean Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 10943

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

It usually results when a program accesses memory outside it's allocated space. Or maybe the program tries to access a resource at a particular memory location, but the resource isn't there. It can be a real pain tracking down the offending line/lines of code.

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

It compiles without errors on Puppy 4, not sure if there was any warnings. I tried using gdb, here's what I got:

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

I think to use an binary with gdb you need to compile it with the debug info set.

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

Thanks muggins, but ddd PET doesn't work on Puppy4. Something wrong with dependencies. Might try to make it work later, or even compile it, but now I'll just have to stick with commandline gdb.
EDIT: tried to compile ddd on Puppy4 - got an error:

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

Joshas,

are you after searchmonkey in particular, or just any file search program? Have you looked at findwild?

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

I'm after searchmonkey, unless there's another file search application with "classic" interface and minimal set of dependencies. findwild is an interesting program, but the GUI is too weird. Another must is an ability to localize UI.

UPDATE: after compiling Insight (it took some time, and result weighs 50MB) I finally managed to get searchmonkey running - no more segmentation faults. To fix it, I just commented out two lines in interface.c source code:
1271: gtk_text_view_set_overwrite (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview1), TRUE);
1300: gtk_text_view_set_overwrite (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview4), TRUE);
I'm not sure what is wrong with theese lines (might need to check out GTK docs), and I have no idea how to fix it properly, so any help is welcome.