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

Sun Feb 19 21:46:50 CET 2012

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 17:23, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+
+Duplicate of http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51077 which
+contains a patch for gcc
+