Re: [Plplot-general] opendir(drvdir) segfault

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2006-03-08 10:07+0100 Xavier Chardon wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I downloaded and installed plplot 5.5.3. I can successfully compile and
> run the examples. So I tried to use plplot from a bigger program.
>
> However, I get a segmentation fault when trying to run my program. With
> the debugger, I noticed that the problem was coming from the function:
>
> opendir(drvdir), in plcore.c, line 2090.
> The char* drvdir has the proper value (/usr/local/lib/plplot5.5.3/driversd).
>
> This function is called inside plinit().
>
> I tried to configure plplot with --disable-dyndrivers, but nothing changed.
>
> Does anybody have an idea??

Hi Xavier:

Since the examples work and your programme does not, I suspect you are not
linking your programme in the same way the examples are linked.  Follow what
is done in /usr/local/share/plplot5.5.3/examples/c/Makefile to build the
examples and your programme should be okay.

Alan
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