Ken Moffat wrote: > Has anyone got evince working on x86_64(,-64} since we moved to > gcc-4.2 ? Last year, it crashed the 7.3 X server for me when built > with gcc-4.1.2, until I upgraded pixman (on pure64). I remember Joe > said it didn't work for him, now I suspect he was already on 4.2 ? > > The book moved to gcc-4.2, I eventually fixed up ppc64 - evince works > there, tested ppc, evince works there too. Came back to x86_64-64 > (gnome-2.20, FWIW), xorg-7.3, evince crashes the X server. Tried a > few updates, e.g. newer pixman, but no joy. Used garnome to build > enough of gnome-2.22 to try evince: still crashed the X server. > > I've just finished a build with the current book (whoops, current > book and 2.6.24.4 kernel/headers) and tried reverting to xorg-7.2 : > evince-2.20 still crashes the X server. Kghostview seems to handle > my pdfs fine, bt it would be really nice to get evince working > again. I suspect gcc-4.2 is miscompiling something, but either in > the xserver or in one of the libraries. > > Failing any other ideas, I suppose I need to try with gcc-4.2.4, > unless anyone knows of a reliable way to find out which xorg > libraries are intended for 7.3 ? Somehow, I don't feel confident > that waiting for xorg-7.4 will be a magic bullet. > I got it all working by upgrading pixman, Mesa (probably not related) and xorg-server to a git revision from a few months back when the problem first came up for the both of us. I wish I had some more information for you.
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