Re: Crashes with binaries compiled from source

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:05 +0100, Johannes Kroll wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 11:30 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 17:48 +0100, Johannes Kroll wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > 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.
> >
> > If you still see the problem (or in general) I would really like to see
> > a bugzilla report, ideally with a gdb backtrace. I want to make Glom
> > absolutely rock solid, but I need actual problems to solve.
>
> I'm still trying to find out what this could be... After your suggestion
> about C++ ABI incompatibility I wrote a little perl script that walks
> all dependent libraries of an ELF file and looks at version info. Maybe
> it's useful to you too, so I attached it. However they all seem to use 
> C++ ABI 1.3 (if any), so that doesn't seem to be the problem.

I doubt that there's any definitive test for this kind of thing. But I'd
still like to see that bugzilla report with that backtrace, along with
other details that you've mentioned already.

> > Also, what locale are you using? In the past, some locales have had
> > translated markup that has caused problems.
>
> Looks like I'm using "C":
> ~> locale
> LANG=C
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_PAPER="C"
> LC_NAME="C"
> LC_ADDRESS="C"
> LC_TELEPHONE="C"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
> LC_ALL=

OK, so this is unlikely to be the problem.

> I remember setting the locale back to "default" because the german
> translations of many programs were so bad.

Like anything, you'll have to report that to get it fixed. The
translators are responsive.

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