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Avi Cohen Stuart wrote:
> [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.

> 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.

-- 
Matthew
Only Joe suffers from schizophrenia. The rest of us enjoy it.


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