[Plplot-general] Segmentation fault with static linking on x86-64

[Emmanuel B. <be...@ia...>]

Hi all,

Although there is no problem on x86 systems, a strange thing happens 
when linking statically a C program with PLPlot on the x86-64 
architecture: *Any* unsuccesfull call to fopen() happens to generate 
immediately a segmentation fault!! I tried with various 5.x versions, 
including the latest 5.3.1.cvs.20041028, with different versions of 
glibc on Mandrake 10.x and the latest Gentoo. No such problem ever 
happens when linking dynamically. Here is what strace says:

brk(0)                                  = 0xd4c000
brk(0xd6d000)                           = 0xd6d000
stat("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=420, ...}) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

Does anyone have a clue??? I guess it may have to do with some library 
used by PLPlot, but I have not been able to find which one.

Thanks for this very nice library.

				Emmanuel.

PS: One may wonder the purpose of statically linking a library which 
depends on specific font files at runtime. Well we made a patch that 
circumvents this and allows you to use and distribute programs linked 
with PLPLOT without having PLPLOT installed (this was proposed to the 
developers for inclusion in the official package but we got no 
response)... But the bug above occurs also without the patch applied.