2.4.0 plan for #12215 [LyX crashes with async processes (Qt6 only)] ?

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 15:59:59 UTC 2022


On 11/17/22 10:48, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:24:31PM +0000, André Pönitz wrote:
>>> That's linked from
>>>
>>>     https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-108604
>>>
>> It is very helpful to know that it is a GCC bug. Now we can make a plan
>> moving forward for the release regarding this issue.
> Does this mean that if LyX is compiled with a compiler without the bug
> (e.g., Clang or perhaps a different GCC without the bug), then the bug
> will not be present in the LyX binary? Or does it mean that the Qt
> library itself needs to have been compiled with a compiler without that
> bug?

If I'm reading the GCC stuff correctly, the bug is in the C++ libraries, 
so the bug is not really in the LyX binaries at all, or even in the Qt 
ones. We see it with Qt 6 because they use a construction there that 
triggers the bug.

Riki




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