Indeed, the problem goes away when -static flag is omitted.
Interestingly, the resulting binary dependencies do not include any
ccp4-related libraries.  For those interested, I was able to track the
segfault down to the close() operator - so basically it fails when
closing a file opened with ccpdpn routine.  At that point I had a lucky
guess of removing the flag (somewhat inspired by noticing that refmac5
binary from cc4-6.3.0 is dynamic and after trying to compile separately
a short piece of code that only opened and closed a file), so the issue
is solved as far as my goals are concerned. 

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 10:04 +0000, Garib N Murshudov wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> 
> I think this error has been dealt with (Ed will correct me if I am
> wrong). The problem was -static in compilation. For whatever reason in
> some gcc (gfortran) -static does not work (it compiles but has
> problems in running, what is the reason is not clear to me). Sometimes
> in later gcc -static-libgcc -static-libgfortran works but not always.
> These flags are needed for distribution purposes. If you are compiling
> and using on the same computer then you should not need it.
> 
> 
> regards
> Garib
> 
> 
> 
> On 4 Mar 2013, at 09:56, Adam Ralph wrote:
> 
> > Dear Ed,
> > 
> > 
> >    The error does indeed happen in ccp4lib. One of the first
> > routines called by CCP4
> > progs is "ccp4fyp". This initialises the CCP4 environment. See
> > lib/cctbx/cctbx_sources/ccp4io/lib/src/ccp4_general.c.
> > 
> > 
> > If you look at the code you can see that $CINCL is determined at
> > run-time. You are 
> > right that this environment var is not needed at compile time. Files
> > like environ.def and 
> > default.def are read at this time. Perhaps there has been a
> > corruption of one of these 
> > files or you are pointing to an earlier version of $CINCL. Does the
> > error occur with
> > refmac alone or with every CCP4 prog?
> > 
> > 
> > Adam
> > 
> > 
> 
> Dr Garib N Murshudov
> Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
> Hills Road 
> Cambridge 
> CB2 0QH UK
> Email: [email protected] 
> Web http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
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University of Maryland, Baltimore
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