Re: Still problems with boot-floppies

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Martin Schulze wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm still having problems with boot-floppies wrt. pointerize.
> 
> Currently I'm trying the smallest example I could find:
> 
> 	utilities/dbootstrap/release_notes_test
> 
> To find the problem, set TESTLANG to something else than C or es.
> 
> I've done some debugging and saw that in boxes.c
> 
>         msg = _("Debian GNU/Linux System Installation");
>         newtDrawRootText((w-strlen(msg))/2, -5, msg);
> 
> is called with msg==NULL.
> 
> The first line gets expanded to 
> 
>         msg = (translation[94]);
> 
> Since the installation routine must not crash with a segfault there
> are now three possibilities to fix the problem:
> 
>  a) Fix newt to not crash when called with NULL strings
> 
>     Should be done anyway, will only move the problem.
> 
>  b) Add a MACRO around each incarnation of translation so it will
>     contain an empty string instead of NULL
> 
>  c) Fix pointerize to prepare an array of empty strings instead
>     of NULL.

Err, forgot the fourth one:

   d) Make pointerize return the original string if no translation
      was found.

> Comments?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Joey

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