On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:11:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> This is just a heads up that there is something rotten in the state > >>of texlive when built from source, at least on i686. > >> > >[...] > >> > >>2. My test script for xindy now fails, because the index (which is > >>the whole point of xindy) is not created. That was how things used > >>to be when my clisp build was inadequate. > > > > And since then, it has turned out to be broken on i686 in LFS-7.6 > >(and until last Friday, nobody had noticed). > > > > But x86_64 xindy works fine in both almost-current svn and 7.6. > >My guess is that clisp on i686 is broken by gcc-4.9, but it is only > >a guess. I do not have a 32-bit system from before gcc-4.9.0. > > I've got a 686 with gcc-4.7.0. Is there something explicit you would like > me to test? > > -- Bruce > Thanks, but I have some reservations about asking this -
GCC-4.7 is rather old. And the test is long : It comes down to building current texlive - to get xindy, so either two passes, or on top of the full 2014 binary (my test needs lualatex installed), and with libsigsegv and clisp built before xindy. And then, the last release of my tex-test scripts (in ~ken/) has an 'encyclopedium' target. It will need fontconfig, and at least DejaVu fonts. If that test works, the PDF has 4 pages, of which the fourth is the index. If it fails, the PDF only has three pages. To be honest, a system with native gcc-4.7 will be sufficiently old that other things might affect the result. It occurs to me that I can try building clisp without optimization. I have not looked at the log yet, but that seems a plausible option, similar to what we had to do for firefox, and failing that I can probably build gcc-4.8 in /opt with all the versions of gmp, mpfr, mpc which we used in LFS-7.5, and all in the same tree like in chapter 5. Going back _one_ gcc version used to work. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
