This happened to me during a remerging of xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 when changing to the gcc-3.4.2-r2 compiler. I already had that xorg version installed using gcc-3.3.x. Wherever my older /etc/X11R6/app-defaults/XOrgCfg file has "\ " at the end of a line, the new XOrgCfg apparently removes the "\ " and instead joins lines. The older file, no doubt, is the correct one. A change in C preprocessor behavior seems to be involved. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE_SPECS=vanilla ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge xorg-x11 2. 3. Actual Results: See "Details". Expected Results: No difference between the older XOrgCfg and the newer one. Here is (what I believe to be) a relevant portion of the portage log: rm -f XOrgCfg.ad cpp -traditional -D__VENDORNAME__="X.Org" <XOrgCfg.cpp | sed -e '/^# *[0-9][0- 9]* *.*$/d' -e '/^#line *[0-9][0-9]* *.*$/d' -e '/^[ ]*XCOMM$/s/XCOMM/#/' -e '/^[ ]*XCOMM[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/s/XCOMM/#/' -e '/^[ ]*XHASH/s/ XHASH/#/' -e '/\@\@$/s/\@\@$/\\/' >XOrgCfg.ad <stdin>:530: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1182: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1183: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1184: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1185: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1186: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1187: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1188: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1189: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1190: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1191: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1192: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1193: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1194: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1195: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1196: warning: backslash and newline separated by space <stdin>:1197: warning: backslash and newline separated by space install -c -m 0444 XOrgCfg.ad /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1/image//usr/ X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XOrgCfg Here is the "emerge info": Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-hardened, glibc-2.3.4. 20040808-r1, 2.6.7-hardened-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-hardened-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.7-r4 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3. 2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/ share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/ generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/ qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/ gentoo http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www. ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/bmg-gnome- current" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X X509 aalib acl acpi alsa arts artswrappersuid audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cap cdr chroot crudhard crypt cscope cups curl dvd dvdr emacs encode erandom esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib innodb jack jbig jp2 jpeg lcms libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mbox mikmod mng motif mozcalendar mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm multilib mysql nas ncurses nntp nptl objc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic pie png portaudio ppds python readline scanner sdl skey slang spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb userlocales vim- with-x wmf xface xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xv zlib"
Created attachment 41464 [details] XOrgCfg generated with gcc-3.3.x
Created attachment 41465 [details] XOrgCfg generated with gcc-3.4.2-r2
I can reproduce this bug, with more or less the exact same conditions (updating from gcc-3.3 to 3.4, and using "stable x86" packages).
Created attachment 75745 [details] diff -Naurb /etc/X11/app-defaults/XOrgCfg /etc/X11/app-defaults/._cfg0000_XOrgCfg There are about 18 lines incorrectly joined.
Could I ask why you're still using that old xorg version? Please reproduce with 6.8.2 and reopen if it's still a problem.
No, this still happens with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (sorry, I should have mentioned this in my comment). I had xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 when I updated from gcc-3.3.6 to gcc-3.4.4-r1. So, yes, this bug is still valid, and still happens on latest stable versions. Please reopen it.
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This file is no longer installed in modular X, and monolithic X is no longer receiving non-security fixes.
