Re: [AD] abort on exit in X port

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote:

> Peter Wang wrote:
>
> > I've been meaning to bring this up but kept forgetting.  Is anyone 
> > else getting SIGABRTs when Allegro programs exit, in the X port?
>
>
> Yes! I thought it was just me or my programs. However, whenever I try 
> to get it with gdb, I always end up getting a SIGTRAP signal, and an 
> unusable (possibly corrupt) backtrace. The times I do get SIGABRT is 
> no more useful. I believe I was getting them in 4.1.14 too, but it 
> only started when I reinstalled Gentoo. Before then, it was fine. 


Was your backtrace anything like mine?  I compiled Allegro in debug mode 
& statically linked.

In case it helps: gdb is utterly useless with threaded programs if the 
copy of libpthread on your system has been stripped.  In my case I tried 
a special 'debug' glibc package for Slackware -- which also had stripped 
libraries (err, oops!).  I built my own glibc/LinuxThreads making sure 
the libraries weren't stripped, after which gdb was was back to its 
normal self.

Peter