[PLUG] C program: configures & builds, segfaults on invocation

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:

> I've run jpilot (the Palm PIM desktop) since the Palm Pilot Personal 
> came out. It has built and run on Slackware since 8.0 on my 32-bit 
> desktops and portables. It also builds and runs on my 64-bit 
> laptops. But, when I try to load it on the new 64-bit desktop it 
> segfaults.
>
> It works for the developer on a vm running a patched Slackware-14.2 
> and my new desktop runs a fresh installation, fully patched, of the 
> same distribution. Why it will not load here is a mystery needing to 
> be solved because I use jpilot (and the handheld Palm TX) every day 
> for both business and personal needs.

If you run "ldd /path/to/jpilot" on the machine where it segfaults and 
on a machine where it runs successfully, do you see any meaningful 
differences?

If you run "strace -ff -o /tmp/jpilot.trace /path/to/jpilot" does 
anything obvious stick out (probably near the end of the trace file)?

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Paul Heinlein
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