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On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:52:44 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start |
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> up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is |
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> showing up. |
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> Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64. |
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I just rebuilt my system for ~amd64 and have it working fine. The thing to |
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understand about Acrobat Reader is that it has forever been linked |
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incorrectly: it contains both an embedded old zlib AND dynamically links |
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against the system-wide zlib version. Yes, these people are laughably |
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incompetent. |
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This goes poof when e.g the dynamically loaded zlib is compiled with -O3, |
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which seems to change symbol entry points & offsets. If I had to look |
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deeper that would be my first angle of attack. Since I now have the |
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x86-emul-libs prebuilt I no longer have this problem; however on my |
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remaining 32bit x86 installation zlib must still be built with -O2 only. |
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