Bug 75118 – Abiword-2.2.2 compiles but doesnt work on ppc64

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yang Dehua 2004-12-20 16:56:58 UTC]

I just emerged abiword-2.2.2 successfully on my gentoo ppc64,but it didnt work properly. The gui was brought up beautifully when opened, but I could not scroll client text area; Page-down, Page-up, slide on scrollbar, or mouse wheel would not function at all after I opened a large, multi-page text file. I could only write or view the first page, the rest pages wouldnt be shown up.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc64" emerge abiword
2.$abiword-2.2
3.<open a text file>

Actual Results:  
The text area could not be scrolled


Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-ppc64-2004.3, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
2.6.8-gentoo-r3 ppc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 ppc64 PPC970, altivec supported
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.3-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G5 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing  -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/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
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G5 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo
http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp 
ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa altivec arts aspell berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk cups dvd
encode esd f77 foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib
java jpeg kde ldap libwww mad mitshm mozilla mpeg mysql nls nptl nptlonly
oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png ppc64 python qt readline samba sdl slang ssl
svg tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode xanim xmms xv"

[Comment 1 Yang Dehua 2005-01-30 16:16:15 UTC]

Any progress in solving the problem? 

[Comment 2 Yuta SATOH (RETIRED) 2005-02-04 07:59:16 UTC]

I solved this problem by compiling Abiword-2.2.3 using gcc-3.4.3-r1. 

The step for solution :
1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~ppc64 emerge =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3-r1
2. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~ppc64 emerge abiword
3. emerge gcc (back to stable version of gcc)

Thank you.

[Comment 3 Yuta SATOH (RETIRED) 2005-02-04 08:03:40 UTC]

Next, I will investigate whether there are any bug and relation of Bug #80187.

[Comment 4 Yuta SATOH (RETIRED) 2005-02-04 08:07:57 UTC]

my bad... better sentence is the following. 

Next, I investigate whether it is related to the problem of bug #80187. 

[Comment 5 Yang Dehua 2005-02-04 19:24:29 UTC]

I did just as you instructed, and it worked! I also compiled totem and rhythmbox with 3.4.3, the previous problems(with 3.4.1) were gone away too. May be there are some problems with gcc-3.4.1, the 3.4.3 version should be marked with stable.

Thank you very much, I realy appreciate you excellent work.

[Comment 6 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2005-02-10 11:49:39 UTC]

gcc-3.4.3-r1 is stable now. this bug should be fixed then.

[Comment 7 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2005-02-10 11:49:48 UTC]

closing