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Re: Illegal instruction on Gimp startup



On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:47 -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:05:01 +0200
> strawks <strawks@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> > (script-fu:26063): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error
> > Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> > 
> > The call trace says the Illegal instruction appens in the
> > libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 library. The function depends on what dialogs I
> > try to open.
> 
> Looking at that library (albeit in sarge) with objdump -S, I don't see
> any mmx or sse type instructions used. Based on your problem, perhaps
> in testing someone used the wrong compilation options. I have been
> tripped up by this once or twice in the past (but on different
> distributions) and mostly it was pilot error -- getting the wrong
> binary (I have an Athlon, but not an Athlon XP, so some instructions
> are unsupported).
> 
> This however should be a moot point in debian, since (on IA) yuo have
> either i386 or 64 bit, no other choices -- at least theoretically.
> There are a few exceptions where (so far) I've been able to get more
> optimized binaries.

This bug has been fixed in version 2.2.8-5 (bug #318345 in the debian
BTS).

-- 
strawks <strawks@yahoo.fr>

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