[Clfs-support] evince on x86_64

[Joe Ciccone]

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.