[Slackbuilds-users] gcc-legacy

[Daniel Prosser]

I posted this on LQ as well, but I just tried compiling Pale Moon with
clang/clang++ and the default flags. It works fine with no segfaults.
Personally, I'd prefer this route instead of requiring a legacy gcc.

Dan

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:52:01AM +0000, Daniel Prosser wrote:
> I completed some tests today with SBo's PaleMoon (the from-source
> version). I found two sites where it segfaults consistently, no matter
> whether I use the ENABLE_DEBUG and OPTIMIZE=-Os or the default
> parameters. I also applied the workaround for the Oxygen gtk2 theme that
> is mentioned in the README. The sites are:
> 
> https://www.yahoo.com/ and
> http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/
> 
> In both cases, just opening up the page would result in a segfault
> within a few seconds. For reference, this is on Slackware64-14.2 with
> gcc-5.3.0.
> 
> Following that, I compiled gcc-4.9.4 and used it instead to build
> PaleMoon. Other than that change, the default parameters from the script
> were used. This fixed the problem, and now neither site segfaults. I
> also tried with the other PaleMoon ("palemoon") on SBo that repackages
> the official binary, and with Alien Bob's Pale Moon package. Neither of
> those have trouble with those two sites either.
> 
> More discussion here:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/palemoon-from-source-slackbuild-4175605127/
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 06:37:42AM +0200, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> > 2017-05-04 3:56 GMT+02:00 Christoph Willing <chris.willing at iinet.net.au>:
> > > PS. I've seen only vague descriptions of the problems people are having
> > > when using the new PaleMoon not built with the earlier gcc version. It
> > > would be good to see something more definite  about these problems so
> > > others can test/verify them.
> > 
> > for this might be useful the ENABLE_DEBUG parameter in the SlackBuild
> > but, still for people experiencing crashes, have a look also at the
> > OPTIMIZE one
> > 
> > https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/network/PaleMoon/
> > 
> > Matteo
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