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

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mardi 01 avril 2014 à 13:39 -0400, Mike Miller a écrit :
> 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.

Ok, then don't hesitate to go ahead if you want to fix this quickly. I
guess a note in debian/NEWS would be welcome, since a previous entry
there contains an announcement for the JIT.

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