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

[Pascal Terjan]

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