Grads on Slackware 11 - segmentation faults due to a severe case of versionitis

[walter harms]

hi all,
a simple way to find the 'breakpoint' is to compile with debug (gcc -g).
then your start the programm with 'gdb myprg'. The error will be catched,
the offending line shown. then type 'bt' (mean backtrack) and post.
That makes it easy to identify the function where the error occurs.

re,
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Jean Pierre Arabonis wrote:
> Thanks Pat, with your and Jennifers' input I am starting to actually
> understand what is happening.
>    The patch would be much appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks
>    Jean Pierre
>
>
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:35:03PM +0200, Jean Pierre Arabonis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jennifer
>>>    Now I expect that Patrice's -enable-dynamic-supplibs will only work
>>> with dods 3.2. so building Opendap 3.4 won't help.
>>>
>>
>> Actually it is quite the opposite. I never had any dods 3.2 to test, so
>> I used macros from gdal and guessing, but all the real testing I did
>> begun with opendap 3.4, up to the current (beta) version 3.7.2 I use
>> now.
>>
>>
>>>    Am I on the right track in believing that with an effective build of
>>> opendap 3.4 I should then have the drivers, or the updated version
>>> thereof that are presently packaged in supplib tar file, from that I
>>> should be able to create an updated supplib and then work through the
>>> changes required in the .configure.
>>>
>>
>> for 3.4 Jennifer gave all the information allready.
>>
>> for 3.5 we have libdap for dap, netcdf api provided by libnc-dap, and
>> libcurl and libxml2 as dependencies (and these library dependencies,
>> especially curl ones given by curl-config). The scripts are dap-config
>> and ncdap-config.
>>
>> at 3.7 it changed slightly, and the client side of dap used by grads
>> is now provided by libdapclient instead of dap (and maybe libdap is also
>> needed).
>>
>> Be warned that you need a patch against grads that somebody sent on
>> the list
>> for libdap above 3.5 (if I recall well). I certainly have it somewhere,
>> together with other changes required to compile with gcc4, if you want.
>>
>> --
>> Pat
>>
>>
>
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