[tex-live] [XeTeX] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Mon Jul 12 17:48:32 CEST 2010


On 07/12/2010 05:09 PM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Le 12/07/2010 10:28, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
>> I'm pretty sure this is true; it's probably a straightforward error related
>> to data structures/sizes/etc in the code that interprets the font tables, but
>> I haven't had the opportunity to set up a 64-bit system and try to debug it.
>> If someone on a 64-bit system cares to do a debug build and provide a
>> backtrace from such a crash, that would be a good start towards identifying
>> the problem.
>>
> Interestingly enough, the version shipped with TL segfaults just as in Ulrik's
> report, while a locally compiled version (with debugging symbols, using the
> sources in xetex's trunk) doesn't.
>
> Sounds very much like Khaled's report conerning LuaTeX, one hour ago...

It has to be unrelated as Khaled's crash happens in code that does not
exist in XeTeX.

Best wishes,
Taco


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