Adding Bryan C. Everly, MAINTAINER of x11/lumina. On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:19:52 +0100 Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 12:30:37AM -0500, George Koehler wrote: > > I built your 0.83.0 with ports-gcc on powerpc (macppc). The good news > > is that the build completed, so I can still build other ports that > > depend on poppler. > > > > I looked for a port that would use poppler to view a PDF file. I found > > and built x11/lumina and tried lumina-pdf. A PDF of 89 pages causes > > lumina-pdf to run out of memory and crash. A PDF of 7 pages almost > > works, but colors are wrong. White is still white, but some black text > > becomes blue, and other colors are worse. These symptoms might not be > > new; I didn't try viewing a PDF with poppler before 0.83.0, and I don't > > know whether the color problem is in lumina or in poppler. The macppc > > is big-endian, but some code might assume little-endian color. > > It would be nice if anyone else with macppc could do some similar > tests with poppler-0.82.0, so we can see wether this is a regression > or not. There is no regression, and the problems are in lumina-pdf, not in poppler. I pkg_delete(1)d poppler-0.83.0, then updated my macppc to the recent powerpc snapshot packages, so I'm now on poppler-0.82.0. The snapshot's lumina-pdf built with poppler-0.82.0 has exactly the same problems as my earlier build of lumina-pdf with poppler-0.83.0: the 89-page PDF runs out of memory and crashes, and the 7-page PDF has wrong color. I pkg_add(1)ed apvlv, another PDF viewer that depends on poppler. "apvlv $file.pdf" works with both files: no crash, correct color. This proves to me that poppler-0.82.0 works on macppc. (I have not yet tried apvlv with poppler-0.83.0 because I would need to rebuild 0.83.0, then build apvlv.) I conclude that - poppler-0.83.0 is just as good as 0.82.0, and - lumina-pdf has problems, while other PDF viewers work with poppler. These are the PDF files: http://tack.sourceforge.net/olddocs/em.pdf (190K) is the 89-page PDF, mostly black text on white. When lumina-pdf tries to open this, it writes many memory errors to the terminal, like QImage: out of memory, returning null Out of memory "Error: unable to allocate 383 entries" It usually crashes, but my last run got stuck without crashing. top(1) shows lumina-pdf with SIZE 512M and RES 544M. I have a data limit per process of 512M (from datasize-cur=512M for staff in /etc/login.conf). This old macppc machine has a 32-bit address space. https://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/forms/six-flags-over-texas.pdf (422K) is the 7-page PDF. Colors are wrong in lumina-pdf. If these problems only happen on macppc (32-bit big-endian), they might persist until some macppc user fixes them. --George
