From bug-request at octave dot org Mon Jan  3 13:08:47 2005
Subject: Re: Octave 2.1.64 configured "--enable-shared" segfaults on   startup
From: Julius Smith <jos at ccrma dot stanford dot edu>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 19:04:24 -0600

Does anyone know what to do when "dlopen" does not exist?

Below is octave-2.1.64/testrun.log:

Test Run By jos on Fri Dec 31 15:55:51 2004
Native configuration is i686-pc-linux-gnu

                 ===  tests ===

Schedule of variations:
     unix

Running target unix
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for 
target.
Using /usr/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target.
WARNING: Couldn't find tool config file for unix, using default.
Running ./dlfcn/dl.exp ...
ERROR: (DejaGnu) proc "dlopen" does not exist.
The error code is

                 ===  Summary ===

runtest completed at Fri Dec 31 15:55:52 2004


At 05:37 PM 12/30/2004, Julius Smith wrote:
>Bug report for Octave 2.1.64 configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
>Description:
>-----------
>
>After making Octave 2.1.64 configured with "--enable-shared", it
>crashes as follows on an "up2date" Red Hat 9 system:
>
> > octave -q
>panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
>attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
>save to `octave-core' complete
>Segmentation fault
> > gdb -q octave
>(gdb) r -q octave
>Starting program: /usr/local/bin/octave -q octave
>
>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>0x4161f6b2 in symbol_table::hash(std::string const&) (this=0x0, str= at 0x0) 
>at symtab.cc:1732
>1732      return h & (table_size - 1);
>Current language:  auto; currently c++
>(gdb)
>
>-------
>
>Earlier today, a standard configuration (without "--enable-shared")
>worked fine, except that octave-forge no longer worked.
>
>Julius



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