Re: [Closed REQ 5854]: geomview problem

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> I downloaded the tar version for linux (elf binaries) and installed it on 
> my machine.  When I attempt to run I get the following error:
> [1]+  Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ./geomview

There may be a problem with library incompatibility.  I've recently tried
two configurations:

   Linux kernel 1.3.100
   /usr/lib/libstdc++.2.7.0
   /lib/libc.so.5.0.9
   /lib/libm.so.5.0.0

This didn't work; like you, I got a core dump from gvx and lots of other
geomview-related programs.  The "Linux 1.3 software victims" web page
(http://www.lists.undernet.org/~jared/victim.html) seemed to say that
older libc's weren't compatible with recent kernels, so I tried installing

   /usr/lib/libstdc++.27.1.4
   /lib/libc.so.5.3.12
   /lib/libm.so.5.0.6

The ELF geomview binary then did work for me.

The new libraries came from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC as
   libc-5.3.12.bin.tar.gz
   libg++-2.7.1.4.bin.tar.gz

I also installed:
   ld.so-1.7.14.tar.gz  (the new version of "ldconfig" you can compile from
	this seemed important; the /sbin/ldconfig I'd had did not find
	the new libc.so.5.3.12 correctly, i.e. it still made the
	/lib/libc.so.5 sym-link to the older version of the library,
	and created a strange "syntax_options" link to libc.so.5.3.12.
	The new ldconfig did the right things here.)
   binutils-2.6.0.14.bin.tar.gz
   gcc272-no-sr-bug.lbin.tgz
   make-3.74.gz


If you try something along these lines, please let us know whether it
works for you.