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

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

Thanks a lot!! It works perfect now!
Note that "make uninstall" does not actually uninstall everything (some 
things remain in $prefix/share).
				Emmanuel.

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2004-12-02 00:27+0100 Emmanuel Bertin wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> I suspect you have the dynamic drivers enabled when they shouldn't be (for
> a static library build).
> 
> Can you generate the behaviour with any of the _installed_ examples using
> the exact procedure below?
> 
> You must use --disable-dynamic --disable-dyndrivers as configure options 
> for
> the static build to be done correctly.  Also, you must clean out all the
> dynamic libraries from the $prefix install area before doing the usual
> "./configure --options.... ; make; make install" of the normal configure,
> build, and install sequence.
> 
> After such a special build and install, then do
> 
> cp -a  $prefix/share/plplot$version/examples /tmp
> cd /tmp/examples
> make
> 
> to compile and properly link the examples against the static libraries.
> $prefix is the prefix you specified at configure time.
> 
> If you follow the above directions for building static libraries and
> building examples linked against them for version 5.3.1.cvs.20041028, and
> the examples segfault, we want to know about it. Conversely, if the 
> examples
> work with the above make command, then you should look at that linking
> generated by that make command and follow it for your own statically linked
> applications.
> 
> Alan
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