#14 gluNewQuadric gives segmentation fault

[Eric Raskin]

I am attempting to run an older application (called vapt v 0.2.1 - vapt.sourceforge.net) on Ubuntu 10.10 with Togl v2.0-8.4. Excerpts of the code are:

import OpenGL.Tk as gltk
root = gltk._default_root # this does appear to work, although it is undocumented -- I do get a window on the screen that fills in with menu items, etc.
.
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eventually, we execute a call to gluNewQuadirc:

self.pq = gltk.gluNewQuadric()

This causes a segmentation fault.

I have commented out this line and the program then runs (although a major portion of the functionality is missing, since plotting is a big part of the job).

Any idea how to fix it?