On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:31:37PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 09:10:57AM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: > > > SCIM doesn't have the best support for all languages, its biggest > > advantage is multi-language support. SCIM also has its own shortcomings, > > the most infamous one being causing crash in GTK+ applications linked to > > libstdc++5 [1,2,3], which means firefox from mozilla.org, Adobe acroread, > > ATi proprietary video driver, etc. > > This sounds more like a bug than a shortcoming; can it not be fixed? It > sounds like a dynamic linking issue, and there are folks around who know > that part of the stack much better than I do.
Yes, it is a bug, already reported in Debian [1] and Ubuntu [2]. From what I have understood, the really culprit is GCC, and to fix it would need an ABI change in libstdc++, so we have to wait for libstdc++7 to have it fixed. I don't claim I get all the facts right though, the bug reports have enough pointers for people who are interested in this problem. 1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323216 2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/2246 Ming 2007.08.26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
