Re: rootcint crashes under Linux (RedHat 4.2)

Jens Ritter (jens@weh.rwth-aachen.de)
31 Aug 1998 23:46:11 +0200


Fons Rademakers <rdm@pcsalo.cern.ch> writes:

> Hi,
>
> we are aware of the problem in rootcint under libc5. The bug is
> quite puzzling since according to Masaharu nothing has changed
> in CINT in the part where the crash occurs. The crash actually occurs
> in libc after opening a temp file (mktemp) and calling fgetpos (crash
> is in libc routine called by fgetpos). Rene and I are currently not at
> CERN and debugging on libc5 machine is not possible for us right now.
> Also Masa just upgraded from 4.2 to RH 5.1 so he can not debug himself.
>
> Any volunteers who could hunt this problem down? (As test do
> rootcint -f foo.cxx -c TObject.h in $ROOTSYS/include).

Do you remember on with which version of libc 5 the binary is
compiled/linked?

Jens

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