2.96 is an iffy compiler at best... and your math libraries are not the ones that come regular with it (on RedHat7.2 it's libm.so.6, you got 6.1). Upgrade time? gcc 3.4? ./I Chris Dwan wrote: > > I took Iddo's advice and rebuilt with no optimization (no -O flags of > any sort). '-g' is still in there. Sadly, I get my same core dump. It > seems to be a bit slower though... ;) > > On to Joe's questions: The compiler is gcc 2.96. Here's a debugger > session: > > [cdwan at alpha platform]$ gdb /tmp/ncbi/ncbi/build/blastall /tmp/core > GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.1-4) > Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you > are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain > conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "alpha-redhat-linux"... > Core was generated by `/tmp/ncbi/ncbi/build/blastall -d > /home/cdwan/pig_seq -i /home/cdwan/seq_2.fsa -'. > Program terminated with signal 8, Arithmetic exception. > Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6.1...done. > Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6.1 > Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done. > > warning: Unable to set global thread event mask: generic error > [New Thread 1024 (LWP 12287)] > Error while reading shared library symbols: > Cannot enable thread event reporting for Thread 1024 (LWP 12287): > generic error > Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6.1...done. > Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6.1 > Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. > Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 > Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_compat.so.2...done. > Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_compat.so.2 > Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1.1...done. > Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1.1 > reading register pc (#64): No such process. > reading register pc (#64): No such process. > (gdb) where > reading register pc (#64): No such process. > > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > Biodevelopers mailing list > Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > > -- Iddo Friedberg, Ph.D. The Burnham Institute 10901 N. Torrey Pines Rd. La Jolla, CA 92037 USA Tel: +1 (858) 646 3100 x3516 Fax: +1 (858) 713 9930 http://ffas.ljcrf.edu/~iddo