[Mageia-dev] removal of .la from libxt breaks xpdf build

Sun Feb 19 18:23:05 CET 2012

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 17:08, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 16:29, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 16:23, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 15:55, David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> wrote:
+>>>> Funda Wang wrote:
+>>>>> ? 2012-2-12 ??12:08?"David Walser" <luigiwalser at yahoo.com>???
+>>>>>
+>>>>>> D Morgan asked us to say if removal of .la files broke anything.  It
+>>>>>> breaks xpdf, and I don't know if it's fixable.  xpdf needs libXt.la to
+>>>>>> build libxpdf.la, and the xpdf build is heavily dependent on libxpdf.la.
+>>>>>>  See xpdf-3.03-shared.diff for example.
+>>>>>>
+>>>>> The problem is xpdf depends on lesstif, it will bring libXt.la. But lesstif
+>>>>> cannot be built now for some reasons.
+>>>>
+>>>> OK, I see that Funda synced lesstif with Mandriva and fixed the package.  It now builds locally and I believe it is OK.  On the build system,
+>>>> it always fails with gcc segfaulting, and it fails at a different place every time.  I have seen this with other packages where eventually it
+>>>> will work, and it seems to be a resources issue that causes it.  It appears not enough resources (probably RAM) are allocated to the VM (I'm
+>>>> assuming it's a VM) on the build system to build this package.
+>>>
+>>> It's not a vm and it has either 8GB of ram (ecosse) or 12GB (jonund)
+>>> +4GB swap...
+>>
+>> Looking at the log, this is just a normal internal compiler error from gcc:
+>>
+>> XmString.c: In function 'XmStringGetNextTriple':
+>> XmString.c:5484:9: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different
+>> size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
+>> XmString.c: In function 'XmStringComponentCreate':
+>> XmString.c:5520:33: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different
+>> size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
+>> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
+>> {standard input}: Warning: end of file not at end of a line; newline inserted
+>> {standard input}:1840: Error: number of operands mismatch for `test'
+>> {standard input}: Error: open CFI at the end of file; missing
+>> .cfi_endproc directive
+>> gcc: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault (program cc1)
+>> Please submit a full bug report,
+>> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
+>> See <http://bugs.mageia.org/> for instructions.
+>> make[2]: *** [XmString.lo] Error 1
+>>
+>> It was reported at least on https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27357 but
+>> I din't find upstream (gcc) report. I'll try to have a look.
+>
+> Crash happens when you build http://fasmz.org/~pterjan/tmp/XmStringE.c
+> with -O1 or -O2, I'll test on other arch/versions and report bug
+> upstream
+
+http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52310
+