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

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 19:26:12 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le mardi 01 avril 2014 à 10:57 -0400, Mike Miller a écrit :
>
>> This bug affects all Octave users plotting with fltk, which is now the
>> Octave default, and who are using the free LLVM-based graphics drivers
>> for AMD and NVIDIA cards, the VMware virtual GPU, or the swrast driver.
>> Upgrading severity to important.
>
> Doesn't that mean that we should drop the JIT for the time being? Or
> should we immediately upgrade to LLVM 3.4 ?

Yeah I think dropping JIT is best until a more stable solution is
worked out upstream, that seems to be the upstream sentiment as well.

For reference, the LLVM API breakage problem has also been discussed
on debbug #739903 [1] and upstream bug #41061 [2].

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/739903
[2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41061

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mike