[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#695551: Bug#695551: Bug#695551: panic: segfault at startup

Drew Parsons dparsons at debian.org
Tue Dec 11 03:49:26 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 18:41 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > I presume this libhdf5 dependency is the cause of the bug, which means
> > you should be able to reproduce it by replacing libhdf5-7 with
> > libhdf5-openmpi-7.
> 
> Not here, I am unable to reproduce on amd64 with libhdf5-openmpi-7
> installed and libhdf5-7 purged. I can switch between the two hdf5
> variants and Octave starts properly either way.

Hmm, still a tricky bug then :(

> Can you verify that your locally built package, the one that does not
> panic, did indeed link in libhdf5-openmpi-7? E.g.:
> 
> $ ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liboctinterp.so.1 | grep hdf
> libhdf5.so.7 => /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.7 (0x00007fba005f2000)
> $ /usr/bin/octave --quiet --eval "octave_config_info HDF5_LIBS"
> ans = -lhdf5

No, quite on the contrary. My local build apparently did not recognise
libhdf5-openmpi-dev, and went ahead to build without any libhdf5 (I
apologise, I didn't record the build log, perhaps I should run it
again).

Drew



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