Re: Crashes with binaries compiled from source

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 17:48 +0100, Johannes Kroll wrote:
> Sorry I write so late, I was rather busy.
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:52 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:28 +0100, Johannes Kroll wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I tried to compile Glom from source, but the generated binaries crash
> > > with SIGSEGV/SIGABRT. I did the following:
> > >  - got glom from CVS
> >
> > As I work on it, CVS might contain code that crashes for a few minutes.
> > It might be worth trying again.
>
> I already tried the 0.9.0, 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 sources too, and got roughly
> the same errors.
>
> > > So it crashes while parsing the command line. I didn't give any
> > > commandline parameters.
> >
> > This is not something I've seen before. What platform is this (For
> > instance, what version of what Linux distro is this?). How much did you
> > build from CVS? Are you using more than one C++ compiler version?
>
> Platform is Ubuntu Breezy (5.10). I also have some packages from Debian
> sarge installed.

If any of those are C++ packages used by Glom, that's probably the
problem.

>  The compiler... I later tried using gcc 3.3, 3.4 and
> 4.0, same errors. Strange.
>
> What platform and compiler are you using?
>
> I think I will compile on a fresh Ubuntu install on VMWare next, and see
> if I still get the errors there.  

Please make sure that you use the default compiler. Various versions of
g++ are not ABI compatible. And please make a note of what dependent
packages you build from source instead of using from Ubuntu's regular
repositories.

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Murray Cumming
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