[SDL] I broke it... (Adventures in upgrading)

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Wed Feb 11 06:11:40 PST 2004


> Okay, I decided to upgrade from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6. Stupid me however, 
> neglected to uninstall 1.2.5 first, and hence, after installing the 
> 1.2.6 RPM and devel RPM, all SDL applications ceased working. When I 
> backtrace, I get a different error for different apps, but an error 
> nonetheless. In the end, they all get a SIG_PIPE error now.

Do you have esd or arts audio daemons running?

> I have tried uninstalling 1.2.6 and reinstalling 1.2.5, and did the same 
> with all of the broken applications, but the problem persists. I've 
> attempted to install from source, but neither the release nor the CVS 
> will make. The release dies with this error:
> SDL_RLEaccel.c: In function `RLEClipBlit':
> SDL_RLEaccel.c:845: error: invalid `asm': invalid expression as operand
> SDL_RLEaccel.c:845: error: invalid `asm': invalid expression as operand
> SDL_RLEaccel.c:845: error: invalid `asm': invalid expression as operand

This is fixed in CVS.  What's the error when building the CVS version?

See ya,
	-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment




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