[Scribus] Re: [Fink-devel] Bus error on Mac OSX, again (long)

[Max Horn]

Am Donnerstag, 31.07.03 um 12:47 Uhr schrieb Martin Costabel:

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> I cannot understand how linking with a bunch of object files that have 
> nothing to do with the main program can cause a crash of this main 
> program. I would be grateful for any idea about what kind of mechanism 
> could cause such a behavior.
>

Oh that's very simple: if one of the .o files provides a symbol which 
overrides a symbol in one of the libs you link against ... e.g. in qt, 
or even in one of the OS system libs. In that case, you can get the 
oddest and worst behavior. Does it print any warnings during linking?



Cheers,

Max