> I built all of the packages on OpenSUSE 10.3 with your options and ran > Xalan-C's conformance test suite without any problems. > > I'm not sure what your application is doing, but something is wrong with > static initialization of the libraries.
Thank you for your efforts! I (kind of) 'solved' the problem by initializing Xalan directly from the application that links against a library that uses Xalan. (The application itself is not using Xalan.) Regards, Christian