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

Mon Feb 20 03:28:34 CET 2012

Pascal Terjan wrote:
+> 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
+
+tmb added the patch to gcc to fix that issue (thanks Thomas!).
+
+Now the build dies because libXext.la is missing[1] :o(  What's the solution for that?
+
+[1] - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4492#c2
+
+