[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#743260: octave: fltk plotting segfaults when using llvmpipe direct rendering

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 00:48:38 -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> Octave segfaults when plotting anything with the fltk toolkit when
> Octave is built with JIT and when using one of the Gallium llvmpipe Mesa
> drivers for direct rendering. JIT does not have to be enabled in Octave
> for the crash to occur. This is perhaps some kind of LLVM conflict,
> since Octave uses LLVM for JIT and Mesa uses LLVM for the software
> rendering drivers.

I just looked again and noticed that Octave is built against LLVM-3.3
while Mesa is built against LLVM-3.4. I will try to rebuild Octave
against LLVM-3.4 and see if that also resolves this crash.

-- 
mike