Bug 466740 – app-text/dvipng needs to be recompiled after TeXLive is updated to 2012

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description pavel sanda 2013-04-22 03:29:23 UTC]

Instant preview in LyX stops to work after texlive update to TL 2012.
Detailed view shows that dvipng no more works:

dvipng: Symbol `kpse_def_inst' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

After reemerging dvipng problem is gone.
Either some elog message should be displayed after texlive update or dvipng recompilation should be forced if thats possible.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2013-04-22 11:29:51 UTC]

> dvipng: Symbol `kpse_def_inst' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

Could it be that kpathsea upstream broke ABI, but failed to bump library version ?

[Comment 2 Alexis Ballier 2013-04-22 13:11:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> > dvipng: Symbol `kpse_def_inst' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
> 
> Could it be that kpathsea upstream broke ABI, but failed to bump library
> version ?

yes, it's likely, though I think there's a new API which is safe (the original, old, API was not meant to be used in shared libraries AFAIK...)

[Comment 3 pavel sanda 2013-05-01 05:51:16 UTC]

can't we fix this simply by bumping dvipng to -r1 without any change to ebuild itself?

[Comment 4 Alexis Ballier 2013-05-08 12:24:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> can't we fix this simply by bumping dvipng to -r1 without any change to
> ebuild itself?

this would fix the problem once but then it might reappear...

[Comment 5 Alexis Ballier 2017-02-02 12:21:37 UTC]

dvipng now has dev-libs/kpathsea:= dep