How to test/troubshoot an extension (pylibconfig)?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-07-08, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2010-07-07, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Oops.  Those Python bindings are for version 1.3.2 of libconfig (which
>> does work).  They don't work with the current version of libconfig.

>    Python 2.6.5 (release26-maint, Jun 22 2010, 12:58:11) 
>    [GCC 4.3.4] on linux2
>    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>    >>> import pylibconfig
>    >>> conf = pylibconfig.Config()
>    *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python2.6: corrupted double-linked list: 0x08065c48 ***
>
> Am I correct in concluding it has to be a memory corruption problem in
> the library itself?  

Nope.  That problem was cause by having two versions of the library
installed -- one under /usr and the other under /usr/local.

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