Hi Matthew, >> [snip] >> gdb reports the following: >> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. >> [snip] >> >> The address it is trying to write to appears to be a read only address in >> the attempt to resolve some adresses and updating pointers it crashes. > > I've no idea why openmotif/whatever would be broken, but the above > sentence makes me wonder if '-fwritable-strings' (gcc option) would help. > If it does, shame on someone for writing bad code.
Note however that the SIGSEGV occurs during the loading of the binary and its shared libaries and not during execution of the code. >> N.B. sorry for the repost. I suspect that a different subject draws more >> attention... > > Yes. It draws attention to the fact that you have now (potentially) > annoyed us by posting twice. I appologize for that. At least I got an answer that I can try :-) but since it appears to be a linking and loading problem I doubt it will solve the problem. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/