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How to report a bug

You have found a bug. What next?

First, make sure you are running a recent version of Coin. Bugs are found and fixed all the time - it might already be fixed. We are not asking that you need to update to bleeding-edge Subversion sources though, but upgrading to the latest official release will save some unnecessary back and forth.

Take the issue to the coin-discuss mailing list (info , coin-discuss@coin3d.org). You should do a quick search of the list archive before posting - someone else might have discovered the problem and posted about it already. Maybe you can find a workaround there, and information on wether the issue has been fixed in the latest development source code and will be part of the next release. If you are certain you have found a new one, then go ahead and post, and someone will hopefully offer suggestions/solutions in not too long.

You may direct reports on bugs in Coin to coin-bugs@coin3d.org. Your bug report can be everything from crash reports to incompatibilities with other Open Inventor API libraries.

Please include all relevant information, such as
  • operating system (type, version);
  • the development tools you use;
  • environment (what OpenGL implementation, version of Qt, etc.);
  • version of the Coin/So* library you are trying to build;
  • config.log for configure errors;
  • anything else you consider important.