Re: now I think this is a bug
+ Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | So I decided to reinstall teTeX without doing any configuration: | | # rm -rf /usr/local/teTeX/ | # mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf | # gzip -dc teTeX-texmf-1.0.tar.gz | (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf; tar |xf -) | # gzip -dc teTeX-src-1.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - | # cd teTeX-1.0 | # sh -c './configure >configure.log 2>&1' & | # sh -c 'make world >world.log 2>&1' & To me, this indicates that you ran make world without waiting for the configure run to complete. If so, it's a miracle the make even got off the ground, let alone the miracle it would be to have a working setup afterwords. And if you did wait, why this convoluted way of running the commands? - Harald
Re: now I think this is a bug
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Thomas Esser wrote: > This glibc is a very recent version. So, the rest of your system is > likely to be very "bleeding edge", too? > > Well, I suspect that we run into some compiler bug here... > > Thomas > Hi again: This is the same problem I had reported on some time ago. It's probably a gcc 2.96 bug and simply affects libkpathsea.a (and any binaries dependent on this). Probably one can bypass it by replacing libkpathsea.a by a version compiled on a RH 6.2 system (egcs-2.91.66) and "make clean; make" in the affected directories. For me it worked for xdvi. I don't have the time or knowledge to investigate this further. One can get a feeling for gcc 2.96 problems by reading for instance http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk00/2750.html -- João Palhoto Matos http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos Departamento de Matemática Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: now I think this is a bug
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:47:50AM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote: > > export PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH > ... > > TEXMFMAIN ``/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc/share/texmf'' seems to have > > Whow. Cool. Can you please > $ kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT' > > I, for example, get the following output: > /x/t/i/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnu -- /x/t/i/teTeX/bin -- /x/t/i/teTeX > > You should get > /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu -- /usr/local/teTeX/bin -- /usr/local/teTeX # kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT' /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu -- /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux -- /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc > > > # rpm -q glibc > > glibc-2.2-5 > > > > I'll be glad to debug this---if you give me some pointers. > > This glibc is a very recent version. So, the rest of your system is > likely to be very "bleeding edge", too? This glibc is the official update of RH to their 7.0 distro. I have absolutely nothing on my system which is not official RH (except tetex). > > Well, I suspect that we run into some compiler bug here... > I have # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) Mate
Re: now I think this is a bug
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:51:38PM +, Joao Palhoto Matos wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Thomas Esser wrote: > > > This glibc is a very recent version. So, the rest of your system is > > likely to be very "bleeding edge", too? > > > > Well, I suspect that we run into some compiler bug here... > > > > Thomas > > > > Hi again: > > This is the same problem I had reported on some time ago. It's probably a > gcc 2.96 bug and simply affects libkpathsea.a (and any binaries dependent > on this). Probably one can bypass it by replacing libkpathsea.a by a > version compiled on a RH 6.2 system (egcs-2.91.66) and "make clean; make" > in the affected directories. For me it worked for xdvi. I don't have the > time or knowledge to investigate this further. But I reported a bug in xdvi (compiled on my RH 6.2 system) when tried to run it on my RH 7.0 system. Mate
Re: now I think this is a bug
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:58:13AM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > | So I decided to reinstall teTeX without doing any configuration: > | > | # rm -rf /usr/local/teTeX/ > | # mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf > | # gzip -dc teTeX-texmf-1.0.tar.gz | (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf; tar >xf -) > | # gzip -dc teTeX-src-1.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - > | # cd teTeX-1.0 > | # sh -c './configure >configure.log 2>&1' & > | # sh -c 'make world >world.log 2>&1' & > > To me, this indicates that you ran make world without waiting for the > configure run to complete. If so, it's a miracle the make even got > off the ground, let alone the miracle it would be to have a working > setup afterwords. And if you did wait, why this convoluted way of > running the commands? > I just wrote down the exact commands as I executed them. I did have other commands (like `tail -f configure.log) which I did not write down in the email. In particular, I did wait for the configure script to finish. Mate
Re: now I think this is a bug
> # kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT' > /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu -- /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux -- >/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc Looks very broken. This sould be impossible. Look at the kpathsea code (progname.c, I think). Must be a compiler bug. > This glibc is the official update of RH to their 7.0 distro. I have > absolutely nothing on my system which is not official RH (except tetex). ... > # gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs > gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) And still: I think that your compiler is broken. Thomas
Re: now I think this is a bug
I thought it was a known fact that Red Hat boobooed and used a *prerelease* version of gcc (2.96) to make the system libs and what not for RH 7.0. Which is probably the cause of the problems. I don't know what to recommend in this case. Switch to Debian? Not trying to start a flame war with that last comment... Tom On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Thomas Esser wrote: > > # kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT' > > /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu -- /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux -- >/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc > > Looks very broken. This sould be impossible. Look at the kpathsea code > (progname.c, I think). Must be a compiler bug. > > > This glibc is the official update of RH to their 7.0 distro. I have > > absolutely nothing on my system which is not official RH (except tetex). > ... > > # gcc -v > > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs > > gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) > > And still: I think that your compiler is broken. > > Thomas >
Re: now I think this is a bug
If I turn off optimization, all is well (xdvi is working fine too). So I just did env CC=cc CFLAGS='-g' \ sh -c './configure --prefix=/usr/local/teTeX >configure.log 2>&1' & Mate On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:28:46PM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote: > > # kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT' > > /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu -- /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux -- >/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc > > Looks very broken. This sould be impossible. Look at the kpathsea code > (progname.c, I think). Must be a compiler bug. > > > This glibc is the official update of RH to their 7.0 distro. I have > > absolutely nothing on my system which is not official RH (except tetex). > ... > > # gcc -v > > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs > > gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) > > And still: I think that your compiler is broken. > > Thomas -- --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
Re: now I think this is a bug
Tom Kacvinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought it was a known fact that Red Hat boobooed and used a > *prerelease* version of gcc (2.96) to make the system libs and what > not for RH 7.0. Which is probably the cause of the problems. I > don't know what to recommend in this case. The proper thing to do is to try to isolate it to a test case and submit it to bugzilla. Jakub Jelinek is extremely responsive and will run it down as either a GCC bug or app bug, and will fix it. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! IBM: Inherently Bad Manuals
