I just came across another case where apparently this same endian bug
shows up, and this time it is not related to ssh'ing into some linux
box. It concerns the cursor in an educational program for children aged
2-10 "gcompris" <http://gcompris.net/-en->
Gcompris uses several mouse pointer forms, the generic one being a kind
of big fat 3D arrowhead. The program builds and runs OK on OSX, both on
ppc and on intel (a Fink package is now available). On ppc, the mouse
pointers look OK, but on intel instead of the solid red 3D triangle, one
gets some semi-transparent thin sort of flat fish-hook. The other forms
of the mouse pointer are similarly affected.
If one replaces Apple's Xquartz by the patched one from the above link,
the problem goes away.
Apple: Now that this problem doesn't concern only linux geeks any more,
but perhaps small children and their parents, how about considering
fixing the bug?
(I used Grab.app to catch these, and it is notoriously difficult to snap
cursors with Grab; this is the reason why I don't show the generic
cursor form, only the eraser.)
--
Martin
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