Re: [Fink-devel] Bus error on Mac OSX, again (long)

2003-08-01 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 06:36 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Peter O'Gorman wrote: I'd guess that there is a static constructor somewhere in one of the other objects which gets called before main() and does something odd You had the right idea: As it turns out, the crash does not happen in

Re: [Fink-devel] Bus error on Mac OSX, again (long)

2003-08-01 Thread Martin Costabel
Peter O'Gorman wrote: I guess dyld hasn't bound the c++ mangled symbol open from Qt at this point, so it crashes. Hmm, it doesn't always crash (depending on LANG), and when it crashes, it does so after having descended rather far down into the bowels of the definition of QFile::open. I don't

[Fink-devel] Bus error on Mac OSX, again (long)

2003-07-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Hi, this is a belated update on the thread Bus error starting scribus from 3 weeks ago. Being the maintainer of Fink's scribus package, I was unfortunately absent for 3 weeks, so I wasn't aware of this thread on the Scribus list. The bus error is still there, although I found a workaround,

Re: [Fink-devel] Bus error on Mac OSX, again (long)

2003-07-31 Thread Max Horn
Am Donnerstag, 31.07.03 um 12:47 Uhr schrieb Martin Costabel: [...] I cannot understand how linking with a bunch of object files that have nothing to do with the main program can cause a crash of this main program. I would be grateful for any idea about what kind of mechanism could cause such

Re: [Fink-devel] Bus error on Mac OSX, again (long)

2003-07-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, Ben Reed (rangerrick) is on vacation this week, so you won't be able to tap into his experience with qt right at the moment. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports,

Re: [Fink-devel] Bus error on Mac OSX, again (long)

2003-07-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: Oh that's very simple: if one of the .o files provides a symbol which overrides a symbol in one of the libs you link against ... e.g. in qt, Yes, I have been looking for something like this, but nothing so far jumped out at me. I guess for finding such things systematically one

Re: [Fink-devel] Bus error on Mac OSX, again (long)

2003-07-31 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Martin, Ben Reed (rangerrick) is on vacation this week, so you won't be able to tap into his experience with qt right at the moment. Thanks Dave, no hurry here. This thing has been lying around already for a long time. It could have come up much earlier, actually,