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wxwidgets2.8 package

wxDisplay unexpectedly disabled

Bug #828999 reported by Jason X.
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
wxwidgets2.8 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Steve Langasek
Natty
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Oneiric
Fix Released
High
Steve Langasek

Bug Description

SRU justification: an unnoticed misbuild of wxwidgets2.8 in natty against multiarch libraries results in classes missing from wxWidgets, resulting in an ABI break.

Risk: since fixing this bug means re-enabling code that was disabled prior to the natty release, it may expose further bugs. However, it's extremely unlikely that this will be worse than having a completely broken library API.

wxWidgets' configure has `wxDisplay` class enabled by default (`--enable-display`). However, the wxWidgets package on Natty it is disabled (`wxUSE_DISPLAY`=0 in `/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-release-2.8/wx/setup.h`).

My investigation showed that it is because wxDisplay depends on `libXinerama`, but the library files are located in a directory (on 64-bit Natty it is `./lib/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.a`) where wxWidgets configure is not aware of.

See original description
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
tags: added: multiarch
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in wxwidgets2.8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in wxwidgets2.8 (Ubuntu Natty):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package wxwidgets2.8 - 2.8.11.0-0ubuntu10

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wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.11.0-0ubuntu10) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/multiarch_paths.patch: look in the multiarch path
    when detecting libraries. Closes LP: #828999.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:45:53 +0000

Changed in wxwidgets2.8 (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Jason, or anyone else affected,

Accepted wxwidgets2.8 into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in wxwidgets2.8 (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
David Beswick (dlbeswick) wrote :

Hi, I was previously affected by this bug, and I just successfully built wxruby using the wxgtk2.8-dev according to the instructions given. So this fix is verified for me. Thanks a lot!

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David Beswick (dlbeswick) wrote :

I will also post this to the wxruby mailing list and see if I can get further verification from other users.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package wxwidgets2.8 - 2.8.11.0-0ubuntu8.1

---------------
wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.11.0-0ubuntu8.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/multiarch_paths.patch: look in the multiarch path
    when detecting libraries. Closes LP: #828999.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:09:18 -0700

Changed in wxwidgets2.8 (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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