Re: pkg/43039: www/epiphany segfaults on start on NetBSD i386 5.0_STABLE

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43039; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/43039: www/epiphany segfaults on start on NetBSD i386 
5.0_STABLE
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:56:40 -0400

 On 2010-04-04, at 5:05 AM, OBATA Akio wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/43039; it has been noted by =
 GNATS.
 >=20
 > From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:=20
 > Subject: Re: pkg/43039: www/epiphany segfaults on start on NetBSD i386
 > 5.0_STABLE
 > Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:03:05 +0900
 >=20
 > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:40:03 +0900, Matthias Drochner =
 <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost> wrote:
 >=20
 >>> Core was generated by `epiphany'.
 >>> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
 >>> #0  0xbb16703b in JSC::Error::create () from =
 /usr/pkg/lib/libwebkit-1.0.s=3D
 >> o.2
 >> That's a known problem (at least to me:-). Javascript in webkit
 >> does crash in any application using it (eg midori, liferea-current).
 >> (That's why I had left epiphany at 2.26.x all the time.)
 >> Unfortunately newer versions of epiphany and midori use javascript
 >> for some internal initialization even if it was disabled for www
 >> display in the preferences dialog.
 >> I've also tried webkit-1.1.22 but it is not better.
 >> (Next idea would be to compile it with a newer g++.)
 >=20
 > I've confirmed that if webkit-gtk was configure with --disable-jit and =
 built,
 > epiphany and midori works on NetBSD-i386-5.0.2.
 >=20
 > How about disable jit for webkit-gtk on platforms known as unusable?
 > It works for me on SSD/Linux 0.4 (kernel 2.6.16 glibc 2.3.6 gcc =
 4.1.2).
 
 After obache@'s changes earlier today, everything seems to be
 working fine for me.  I see there have been further changes committed
 since, I will test those when I get a chance too.
 
 Dave=