Bug 310393

Summary:	media-gfx/inkscape needs append-flags -fno-strict-aliasing
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Doktor Notor <notordoktor>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Graphics Project <graphics+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://launchpad.net/bugs/1034663 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1550917 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=859628 https://launchpad.net/bugs/168548 https://launchpad.net/bugs/323414
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	this thing is not -fstrict-aliasing safe

Description Doktor Notor 2010-03-20 15:46:28 UTC

This stuff is ignored upstream (see URL) and it causes real runtime problems (i.e., random segfaults)

See attachment for the "progress" made in latest version. In fact this is getting worse from version to version.

Comment 1 Doktor Notor 2010-03-20 15:47:01 UTC

Created attachment 224399 [details]
this thing is not -fstrict-aliasing safe

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-16 10:44:10 UTC

+  16 Apr 2010; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> inkscape-0.47.ebuild,
+  +files/inkscape-0.47-gcc45.patch, metadata.xml:
+  Fix building with GCC 4.5 wrt #305749 by Daniel J.. Fix PostScript
+  dependencies wrt #309213 by Willie Wong and Christopher Harvey. Disable
+  strict aliasing wrt #310393 by Doktor Notor.

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2024-03-10 14:54:56 UTC

I have reported the remaining issue upstream (libuemf) at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/lib2geom/-/issues/71#note_1808522376.