[LAU] Re: paulstretch segfault, sources source?

Thanks for your confirmation Feri, and for the link to paulXstretch,
which I will try to compile from source, removing the current broken
Debian installation of paulstretch.

best, P

* Ferenc Wágner <[email protected]> [2025-11-12 12:04]:
> "Peter P." <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hi list,
> >
> > upon starting up the paulstretch software again after not having used
> > it for a long time, I experience reproducible segfaults when loading a
> > .wav file and trying to start playback. [...]  Can anyone reproduce
> > this? I am on Debian stable with the paulstretch 2.2-2-4.1 package,
> > which sadly seems no longer available to (re)install.
> > [...]
> > Trying to recompile from some sources that I have lying around since years
> > in a folder called "paulstretch_cpp-master" using the supplied script
> > compile_linux_fftw.sh I get this compiler error:
> >
> > [...]
> > XMLwrapper.cpp:32:26: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘mxml_node_t’ {aka ‘struct _mxml_node_s’}
> >    32 |     const char *name=node->value.element.name;
> > [...]
> >
> > What is the best location to get the last version of this great software
> > either as source or binary (package)?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately you probably have the latest version.  At least the bug page
> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=1;src=paulstretch)
> lists the issues you found above and more, leading the the removal of
> paulstretch from the Debian archive as you also noticed.  Some issues
> (like the build error) have solutions, but not the crash, as far as I
> can see.  So work would be needed to get it working again (or a Debian
> buster container or VM).
> 
> Or check out https://sonosaurus.com/paulxstretch/, which seems to be its
> successor.
> -- 
> Regards,
> Feri.
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