On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:52:44 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start > up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is > showing up. > > Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64.
I just rebuilt my system for ~amd64 and have it working fine. The thing to understand about Acrobat Reader is that it has forever been linked incorrectly: it contains both an embedded old zlib AND dynamically links against the system-wide zlib version. Yes, these people are laughably incompetent. This goes poof when e.g the dynamically loaded zlib is compiled with -O3, which seems to change symbol entry points & offsets. If I had to look deeper that would be my first angle of attack. Since I now have the x86-emul-libs prebuilt I no longer have this problem; however on my remaining 32bit x86 installation zlib must still be built with -O2 only. -h
