Re: compiling DDD

[Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com>]

This is an XFree86 issue, so please use the proper mailing list
(cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com).

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 y2bismil@engmail.uwaterloo.ca wrote:

> I used to be able to compile ddd fine, but something occurred when i recently
> updated ddd.  I'm getting static initialiation_construct_and_destructor errors.
>
Please post the exact (cut and paste) error messages you receive.

>  If I revert to an oldfer binary or older GCC(3.2.x) then it compiles fine, but
> segfaults on startup.
>
What does an older binary mean?

Please see http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html for the additional
information we need to help.

Also, search the cygwin-xfree mailing list archives to see several
discussions on this topic.

> *****ddd log*************
> GNU DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin)
> Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universit䴠Braunschweig, Germany.
> Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universit䴠Passau, Germany.
> Copyright (C) 2001 Universit䴠des Saarlandes, Germany.
>
> Compiled with GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)
> Requires X11R6, Xt11R6, Motif 2.1 (GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.93.91)
> Includes XPM 3.4.11, Athena Panner (7000002L), DDD core
> Built 2003-12-02 by me!!!!.
> $  ddd
> !  Segmentation fault
> ******************************
> It complains about getting an XT error.
>
Please post the exact XT error.

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