Re: Guppi 0.34.5 released

[Juergen Boemmels <boemmels physik uni-kl de>]

Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@pcu.helsinki.fi> writes:

> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
> 
> > Can you e-mail me a backtrace?  
> 
> Sure thing, this crash was caused simply by starting guppi and pressing
> plot->new scatterplot on the menu.
> 
> ---------bactrace----------
> #0  0x4050c873 in glade_xml_set_common_params (self=0x80e6840, widget=0x0, 
>     info=0x80f21b0, parent_long=0x80ff510 "root_table.frame1")
>     at glade-xml.c:1198

Oops, some hours ago I have mailed an answer but I forgot to Cc: it to 
the list.

This backtrace looks familar to mee. Its a problem of an old libc.
You need glibc-2.1 or higher.

>From my old mail:

> You should update your libc.
> SuSE 6.1 uses a glibc-2.0 which has some strange behavior with the
> dynamic loading. (It does not respect the RTLD_GLOBAL flag). So the
> symbols in the plugins are not exported to the main program. But one
> Dialog (I don't remember if it was guppi_scatter_state or
> guppi_scatter_style) relies on the fact that an init-function is
> exported to the global namespace. Bang, there is your seg-fault.

> The simple solution to this problem is: update to SuSE >= 6.2

> The hard solution would be fix the code that plugin-symbols don't need
> to be global, but I have absolutly no idea how to fix it.

bye
boemmels