Re: [UPDATE] app crashes with illegal instruction within gtk_init()

[Mick <bareman tpg com au>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:08:44 +1000
Mick <bareman tpg com au> wrote:

> I've been working on my project for several weeks, using anjuta,
> incrementally building it as I go.
>
> Last wednesday, immeadetely before shutting down for the day I did a
> clean -> build -> install ->test that completed successfully (as far
> as incomplete code can).
>
> On friday I started up anjuta and repeated the process as I always do,
> but when test running the program it crashed with illegal instruction
> as soon as it reached the call to gtk_init().
>
> I made no changes to the code in between wed & fri. so I find it
> confusing, where can I look for a cause?
>
> I tried shutting anjuta and doing the old fashion "make uninstall ->
> make clean -> autoheader -> aclocal -> automake -ac -> autoconf
> -> ./configure make make install -> run" thing to no avail.
>
> in the meantime I have been using test/tryout code (working on small
> chunks like menubar, textview, ...) that use the same pre gtk_init()
> code that runs correctly.
>
> EDIT
> I have just recreated the code and now instead of an "illegal
> instruction" I am getting a segfault while gtk_init() is running
further investigation points to pkg-config (which was updated recently)
being related to the problem - it seems not to be finding gtk.h &
gdk.h, some times with an error message often silently.