On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:29 PM, David Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> There appears to be a bug in Apple's gcc shipping with OS X 10.6 related to 
> run time type identification, templated derived classes, and shared 
> libraries. While this is not a bug in libmesh, it affects libmesh.  Using 
> libmesh version 3802, examples 9 and 14 (among others) compile but throw a 
> run time exception because a dynamic cast fails.
>
> I was able to work around this problem by changing the line
>
> libmesh_CXXSHAREDFLAG = -dynamiclib 
> -Wl,-undefined,dynamic_lookup,-flat_namespace
>
> in Make.common to
>
> libmesh_CXXSHAREDFLAG = -ldylib1.o -dynamiclib 
> -Wl,-undefined,dynamic_lookup,-flat_namespace,-no_compact_linkedit
>
> The dynamic casts are now fine.  There are instances of a few other projects 
> out there running into this bug:
>
> http://openradar.appspot.com/7512422
> http://raichoo.blogspot.com/2009/09/bug-snow-leopards-dynamiccast-und.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00974.html
>
> It might be worthwhile to update libmesh's configure with a workaround.

Thanks for the information!

-- 
John

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