Bug#291438: tetex-bin: dvipdfm segfaults when used with hyperref and hypertex

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

uwe@steinmann.cx (Uwe Steinmann) wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:22:39PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu_r@users.sf.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > Package: tetex-bin
>> > Version: 2.0.2-25
>> > Severity: important
>> >
>> > dvipdfm segfaults on the following trivial LaTeX file.
>> >
>> 
>> I will try it in a clean sarge environment soon.
> No problems on sid (powerpc) with tetex-bin_2.0.2-26.

I also did not get a segfault in my i386 sarge chroot. I'm helpless -
how can one debug this? The only idea I have, since Prabhu seems to be
familiar with gdb, would be to recompile dvipdfm without stripping and
optimising. I think this should be easily possible in the following way:

# you need a deb-src entry in sources.list that points to unstable or sarge
apt-get source tetex-bin
cd tetex-bin-2.0.2
export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt,nostrip"
dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -rfakeroot

Or you just run "fakeroot debian/rules configure", then go to the
subdirectory texk/dvipdfm, edit the Makefile (change -O2 to -O0 in
CFLAGS) and call make dvipdfm.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer