From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216AA138529 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A61EE0AD5; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D250E0AC4 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2E833EFFD for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:56:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.877 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.877 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.573, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cKZqDkuqZc1Q for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A967C33EFF7 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VbBeK-0003Tk-3C for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:56:08 +0100 Received: from p5086ba01.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([80.134.186.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:56:08 +0100 Received: from holger.hoffstaette by p5086ba01.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:56:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: "Holger Hoffstaette" Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:55:16 +0100 Organization: The Fists of the White Lotus Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5086ba01.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Pan/0.13.91 (Before we let euphoria convince us we are free) X-Archives-Salt: d1c2486a-08e4-4836-bacd-084ca9da5abe X-Archives-Hash: 5e4e0791b6f0c09d1938db3d24d1f5bc On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:52:44 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start > up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is > showing up. > > Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64. I just rebuilt my system for ~amd64 and have it working fine. The thing to understand about Acrobat Reader is that it has forever been linked incorrectly: it contains both an embedded old zlib AND dynamically links against the system-wide zlib version. Yes, these people are laughably incompetent. This goes poof when e.g the dynamically loaded zlib is compiled with -O3, which seems to change symbol entry points & offsets. If I had to look deeper that would be my first angle of attack. Since I now have the x86-emul-libs prebuilt I no longer have this problem; however on my remaining 32bit x86 installation zlib must still be built with -O2 only. -h