Coredumps with vtkVectorText

[David Gobbi]

Hi Rob,

The egcs compiler that comes with RedHat 6.0 seems to have
a bug in its strstream implementation.  The vtkVectorText
in the nightly releases has been patched to work around
this problem.

 - David

--David Gobbi, MSc                    dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
  Advanced Imaging Research Group
  Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Rob Hodges wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I built VTK on my RedHat 6 box with no problems, but I get segfaults
> whenever I try to use vtkVectorText (more specifically, when I try to
> render the window containing the actor associated with an instance of
> it).  This occurs in the examples that use it too.  (Both the python
> and tcl ones, anyway.)  
> 
> At first I thought I had a new enough egcs not to worry about math
> inlines, but when I found it doing this I did a 'make clean' and rebuilt 
> with no math inlines.  Still it did it, so I thought maybe make clean
> hadn't done its job completely; deleted the entire source and untarred 
> again; recompiled.  Still it does it.  As you can imagine, I'm getting 
> pretty sick of these fruitless 2-hour compiles.  
> 
> In other respects, VTK works fine (and I'm really impressed with it
> too).
> 
> For what it's worth, I passed the following to configure:
> --with-mesa --with-tcl --with-shared --with-contrib --with-patented
> --with-python
> 
> So... has anybody any ideas?  Has anybody else built VTK on RedHat 6
> and is able to run text.py or text.tcl in the examples?  I'd be
> grateful for any assistance.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Rob
> 
> 
> 
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