Hi Andrew: I just discovered another issue which may be release critical.
For the -DENABLE_DYNDRIVERS=OFF case (with everything else default so this issue occurs when qt_example is built against the system Qt4 libraries), the usual test_interactive target generated a glibc double free error message for examples/c++/qt_example. When I investigated further with valgrind, here were the results. ==9797== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==9797== Copyright (C) 2002-2011, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==9797== Using Valgrind-3.7.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==9797== Command: examples/c++/qt_example ==9797== ==9797== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc() ==9797== at 0x4C279DC: operator delete(void*) (vg_replace_malloc.c:457) ==9797== by 0x6F28E64: __cxa_finalize (cxa_finalize.c:56) ==9797== by 0x644B352: ??? (in /home/software/plplot/HEAD/build_dir/src/libplplot.so.12.0.1) ==9797== by 0x400E4CB: _dl_fini (dl-fini.c:244) ==9797== by 0x6F28AE1: __run_exit_handlers (exit.c:78) ==9797== by 0x6F28B34: exit (exit.c:100) ==9797== by 0x6F10EB3: (below main) (libc-start.c:276) ==9797== Address 0x10ad0500 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 40 free'd ==9797== at 0x4C279DC: operator delete(void*) (vg_replace_malloc.c:457) ==9797== by 0x6F28E64: __cxa_finalize (cxa_finalize.c:56) ==9797== by 0x621D362: ??? (in /home/software/plplot/HEAD/build_dir/bindings/qt_gui/libplplotqt.so.1.0.0) ==9797== by 0x400E4CB: _dl_fini (dl-fini.c:244) ==9797== by 0x6F28AE1: __run_exit_handlers (exit.c:78) ==9797== by 0x6F28B34: exit (exit.c:100) ==9797== by 0x6F10EB3: (below main) (libc-start.c:276) ==9797== ==9797== Invalid read of size 1 ==9797== at 0x5ED0FCD: QObject::~QObject() (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4.8.2) ==9797== by 0x6F28E64: __cxa_finalize (cxa_finalize.c:56) ==9797== by 0x644B352: ??? (in /home/software/plplot/HEAD/build_dir/src/libplplot.so.12.0.1) ==9797== by 0x400E4CB: _dl_fini (dl-fini.c:244) ==9797== by 0x6F28AE1: __run_exit_handlers (exit.c:78) ==9797== by 0x6F28B34: exit (exit.c:100) ==9797== by 0x6F10EB3: (below main) (libc-start.c:276) ==9797== Address 0x20 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd ==9797== ==9797== ==9797== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV) ==9797== Access not within mapped region at address 0x20 ==9797== at 0x5ED0FCD: QObject::~QObject() (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4.8.2) ==9797== by 0x6F28E64: __cxa_finalize (cxa_finalize.c:56) ==9797== by 0x644B352: ??? (in /home/software/plplot/HEAD/build_dir/src/libplplot.so.12.0.1) ==9797== by 0x400E4CB: _dl_fini (dl-fini.c:244) ==9797== by 0x6F28AE1: __run_exit_handlers (exit.c:78) ==9797== by 0x6F28B34: exit (exit.c:100) ==9797== by 0x6F10EB3: (below main) (libc-start.c:276) ==9797== If you believe this happened as a result of a stack ==9797== overflow in your program's main thread (unlikely but ==9797== possible), you can try to increase the size of the ==9797== main thread stack using the --main-stacksize= flag. ==9797== The main thread stack size used in this run was 8388608. ==9797== ==9797== HEAP SUMMARY: ==9797== in use at exit: 360,355 bytes in 3,145 blocks ==9797== total heap usage: 21,464 allocs, 18,320 frees, 5,936,081 bytes allocated ==9797== ==9797== LEAK SUMMARY: ==9797== definitely lost: 1,776 bytes in 13 blocks ==9797== indirectly lost: 3,466 bytes in 84 blocks ==9797== possibly lost: 3,032 bytes in 12 blocks ==9797== still reachable: 352,081 bytes in 3,036 blocks ==9797== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==9797== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory ==9797== ==9797== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==9797== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts (suppressed: 12 from 8) Segmentation fault In contrast I get relatively good valgrind results when -DENABLE_DYNDRIVERS=ON (the default case) ==12544== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==12544== Copyright (C) 2002-2011, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==12544== Using Valgrind-3.7.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==12544== Command: examples/c++/qt_example ==12544== ==12544== ==12544== HEAP SUMMARY: ==12544== in use at exit: 268,716 bytes in 2,536 blocks ==12544== total heap usage: 20,738 allocs, 18,202 frees, 5,877,042 bytes allocated ==12544== ==12544== LEAK SUMMARY: ==12544== definitely lost: 1,600 bytes in 11 blocks ==12544== indirectly lost: 3,466 bytes in 84 blocks ==12544== possibly lost: 2,448 bytes in 7 blocks ==12544== still reachable: 261,202 bytes in 2,434 blocks ==12544== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==12544== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory ==12544== ==12544== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==12544== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 10 from 6) In both cases I simply exited the GUI immediately using the menu item which is equivalent to ALT + F4. Would you be willing to take a look at this? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). 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