Bug 2371 - Can't build auctex due to TeX binary producing fatal xmalloc
Summary: Can't build auctex due to TeX binary producing fatal xmalloc
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: D Morgan
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: 2464 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 1538
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Reported: 2011-08-04 15:09 CEST by David Pernot
Modified: 2011-12-16 16:25 CET (History)
4 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: texlive-20100722-37.mga2.src.rpm
CVE:
Status comment:


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rpmbuild output (20.33 KB, text/plain)
2011-08-04 15:11 CEST, David Pernot
Details

Description David Pernot 2011-08-04 15:09:49 CEST
Description of problem:
I wrote a spec file for packaging emacs-auctex :
http://git.deap.eu/?p=rpm;a=blob_plain;f=SPECS/emacs-auctex.spec;hb=HEAD
When I try to build the rpm, it produces a fatal xmalloc (see attached file)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just try to build emacs-auctex

A simple solution is to use /usr/bin/pdftex instead of /usr/bin/tex.
We should rename /usr/bin/tex as /usr/bin/tex_old and symlink /usr/bin/pdftex to /usr/bin/tex.

Regards
David
Comment 1 David Pernot 2011-08-04 15:11:15 CEST
Created attachment 707 [details]
rpmbuild output

Here is rpmbuild output.
Comment 2 Christiaan Welvaart 2011-08-10 21:36:50 CEST
Do you know of any reason why we should keep the "old" tex? Since it doesn't work (on x86-64?) and as far as we know pdftex is a full replacement based on the same sources, I'm in favour of removing the "old" tex completely (and provide the symlink of course).

CC: (none) => cjw

Comment 3 Christiaan Welvaart 2011-08-20 13:31:11 CEST
*** Bug 2464 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => maarten.vanraes

Oliver Burger 2011-08-20 18:34:56 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 1538

Comment 4 David Pernot 2011-08-21 20:25:36 CEST
It seems to be a packaging issue, there is no problem like that on other distros.
I'm not following this bug any more so if nobody is concerned, please close.
Regards
Comment 5 Samuel Verschelde 2011-10-01 02:56:46 CEST
Assigning to maintainer now that our maintainers database has an entry for
this package. Please assign back to bugsquad@mageia.org in case of a mistake
from me.

CC: (none) => stormi
Assignee: bugsquad => dmorganec

Comment 6 Malo Deniélou 2011-12-16 16:25:52 CET
I now builds on cauldron fine. I just submitted and it will appear on mirrors soon.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => malo
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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