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

[ulrik.vieth at arcor.de]

I did check with ldd, but I don't have the exact ouput at hand.
AFAIK, the XeTeX-modified ICU library was statically linked.
Only stuff like fontconfig or zlib was dynamically linked.

I am running Ubuntu 10.4 on AMD 64, but I haven't checked yet
which libaries are provided as 64 bit versions.

I wouldn't assume that the problem is with dynamic linking per se.
I rather suspect that there are some issues with parsing the 
font information on 64 bit systems in general. It doesn't always
produce segfaults, but it may simply produce incorrect results.

When I first reported it to the XeTeX list some weeks ago,
my problem was confirmed to exists on Solaris 64 as well,
so this seems to be a generic problem of 64 bit architectures.

Regards, Ulrik

----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
An:      Ulrik Vieth <ulrik.vieth at arcor.de>
Datum:   12.07.2010 02:06
Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

> On 12 July 2010 Ulrik Vieth wrote:
> 
>  > Would it be a feasible idea to supply Linux32 binaries for XeTeX on
>  > Linux64 platforms? Would this work at all or would this require
>  > additional infrastructure (e.g. 32 bit versions of libraries)?
> 
> I assume that the problem is that XeTeX is dynamically linked.  I
> don't know which Linux distribution you are using.  I'm using Gentoo
> Linux on AMD_64 and Gentoo only supplies shared 32-bit libraries
> needed by nonfree 32-bit-programs like acroread.  I assume that a
> 64-bit version of XeTeX works better on my system.
> 
> In order to find out whether dynamic linking is the problem, run
> 
>   ldd /path/to/xetex
> 
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
> 
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Reinhard Kotucha			              Phone: +49-511-3373112
> Marschnerstr. 25
> D-30167 Hannover	                      mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is
> NO.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:
>   http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
>