[Haskell-cafe] Re: gkt2hs seg fault issue

[Andy Stewart]

Which ghc version?

It's have a bug in ghc-6.12 that cause gtk2hs segment fault.

If you use other ghc version, you should use gdb run your program to get
backtrace, then we can help you.

Cheers,

  -- Andy

<briand at aracnet.com> writes:

> I reported a seg-fault in chart a while back.
>
> so I was experimenting with cairo and rendering to to the screen, which
> if my understanding is correct, uses gtk.  Certainly looks like it.
>
> So I compiled the cairo example Drawing.hs and that worked fine.
>
> I then tried running the example from ghci, i.e. loading it and typing
> main.
>
> I get a seg-fault when it exits:
>
> Ok, modules loaded: Main.
> *Main> main
> Loading package array-0.3.0.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package bytestring-0.9.1.5 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package filepath-1.1.0.3 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package old-locale-1.0.0.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package old-time-1.0.0.3 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package unix-2.4.0.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package directory-1.0.1.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package process-1.0.1.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package time-1.1.4 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package random-1.0.0.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package haskell98 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package mtl-1.1.0.2 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package cairo-0.11.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package containers-0.3.0.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package glib-0.11.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package gio-0.11.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package pretty-1.0.1.1 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package pango-0.11.0 ... linking ... done.
> Loading package gtk-0.11.0 ... linking ... done.
> *Main> Segmentation fault
>
> I included all the messages in case someone knows that one of the
> libraries is out of date and could be the source of the problem.
>
> Is it to be expected that it would seg-fault under ghci ??