GTK+ 1.2.1 coredumps on all apps

[Spirilis <erbrun bellatlantic net>]

I have compiled GTK+ and GLib using the patch from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 for
both (I have the 1.2.0 source trees laying around, and applied the patch--
had no problems patching)

After compiling and installing, all my GTK 1.2.0 apps coredumped.  After
compiling one again with the new GTK+ 1.2.1, it still coredumped.

Compiling GTK and GLib with -g3 and --enable-debug=yes did not tell me
very much (for backtracing an app like gnp only showed me question marks,
not symbol names... my X libraries are stripped, but GTK/GLib were not,
nor was gnp)
however strace -f /usr/local/bin/gnp did show something:

munmap(0x40008000, 4096)                = 0
brk(0x8089000)                          = 0x8089000
brk(0x808c000)                          = 0x808c000
brk(0x8091000)                          = 0x8091000
getuid()                                = 0
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY)           = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2507, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40008000
read(4, "halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt"..., 4096) = 2507
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0x40008000, 4096)                = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---

Apparantly while doing a getuid() it crashed...?

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