On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 18:13:41 +0200 "G. Schlisio" wrote:

hi list,

the aur package for adobes pdf reader acroread [0] is broken since 2 weeks now. it ships an outdated version of this software, because adobe stopped building it for linux in may 2013.

Honestly, I gave up on keeping the Linux version of Adobe Reader running long since — but it's honestly unnecessary. Adobe Reader 11 works flawlessly under Wine, with a little assistance from Winetricks. Run the following commands: $ curl -O https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.10/en_US/AdbeRd... $ export WINEDEBUG=-all WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/acroread/ $ winetricks prefix=acroread win7 atmlib riched20 wsh57 mspatcha $ wine AdbeRdr11010_en_US.exe # When prompted during installation, select “Manual” for updates. $ winetricks prefix=acroread winxp That sequence will install Adobe Reader 11 and all its necessary support DLLs into a dedicated Wine bottle, and Wine nowadays is smart enough to generate .desktop files that find it, use the correct prefix, and even associate PDFs and PDF forms with it. I hope that resolves your issues. ~Celti

downgrading libxcp to version 1.11.1 seems to fix this temporarily Perhaps you could make a PKGBUILD for this exact version of libxcp, call it libxcp111 and make it a dependency for acroread? Seems that

On 06/03/16 10:13, G. Schlisio wrote: maintaining that PKGBUILD would be rather hands off, since it's not likely to have the 1.11 revision updated anymore. But it'd be in the same spirit as say libpng14 ( maybe might have to do a lib32- pkgbuild too? ) -- Thanks, John D Jones III UNIX Zealot; Perl Lover unixgeek1972@gmail.com jnbek1972@gmail.com http://zoelife4u.org/ Where Earth and Spirit Unite

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 09:28:48PM +0200, Jens Adam wrote:

Fri, 3 Jun 2016 18:13:41 +0200 "G. Schlisio" :

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some things about lib32-libxcb (running on an x86_64 machine) [2]. downgrading libxcp to version 1.11.1 seems to fix this temporarily, but doesnt provide a long term solution. [2] http://pastebin.com/f3Py5LDn

Not exactly very helpful, but I wanted to let you know that I had the same problem with a very old/proprietary/binary 32-bit application I'm using.

Running it on the laptop (CoreDuo, no x86_64 support) with Arch i686: no issues. On the x86_64 desktop Arch I had to downgrade lib32-libxcb to 1.11.1, like you.

Any further insight appreciated.

--byte

Have you (both of you) raised a bug [1], sent a mail [2] [3] or dropped a line on IRC [4] ? You may well have found a regression, and it would be very helpful if you could give as much details as possible over the relevant channels :) [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ [2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/Xcb [3] https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg [4] irc://irc.freenode.net/xorg

after intensive search it looks like gcc6 is at fault here. more details at the bug tracker [0]. [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49622