Re: USER: linuxthreads causes segfault

[Richard Andrews <richarda at ixla dot com dot au>]

> I have been experiencing the same phenomenon using CVS builds.  I'm trying to come up with a simple test case since
> it only seems to happen with complex third-party programs (ie. attempted rebuilds of the Qt libraries and KDE --
> okay, so I get my kicks through self-flagellation), but have been thus far unsuccessful.  I do believe the problem
> lies in some interaction bewteen the destructors of the global IOStreams (cout, cerr, and so forth) and something in
> the glibc2 runtime, but at this point I'm in over my head.
> 

I'm pretty sure it isn't streams directly as I have a minimal test case which fails and it doesn't use any streams.
I too am finding the problem mostly with large systems. I'm rebuilding sigc and Gtkmm/GNOME-- and all the exes suffer from the segfault on exit.