Bug#253375: segfaults in gnome_program_init() on alpha

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 21:21:14 -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: libgnome2-0
> Version: 2.6.1-3
> Severity: grave
> Tags: sid
> 
> After upgrading, running most gnome applications results in a segfault
> immediately after startup.

> I see that there is an "important" (should be grave?) bug about libgnome
> being broken on ia64 as well, but can't tell from that bug report how this
> would be related.

IA64 and alpha were the only architectures affected by my introduction of
	LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs
	LDFLAGS += -Wl,-O1
to pango1.0's debian/rules (see #252401). libgnome2-0 currently has these
settings as well. There is speculation that support for these flags hasn't
been tested sufficiently on these two archs
(see http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2004/06/msg00020.html).

You may want to try if the segfaults go away if with 2.6.1-3 rebuilt from
source with those two debian/rules lines commented out. If they do, I'd be
interested to know which of these flags triggers the problems, so that a
proper binutils bugreport can be prepared.

Ray
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