illegal instruction error due to hdf5 rpm. Don't know why

[Paul Johnson]

2 people have reported during the past few months that they install the 
RPMS I give for hdf5 and Swarm and then when they run programs, the 
system says
$ ./sss
Illegal instruction

I got an account on of these trouble machines (thanks Bill) and I 
rebuilt swarm, dropping options and features until I found the hdf5 
support was the problem. Build swarm without that, all is well!

So the problem arises when I build hdf5 on my machine and send it to 
theirs.  Can you  give me an idea of the source of this trouble?  Does 
it happen because of differences in binutils, gcc, glibc, or what?

We all start with the same basic RedHat 7.3 system, but somewhere along 
the way the problem arises.

The RPMs in question are:


http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH7.3/hdf5-1.4.3-1RH73.i386.rpm
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH7.3/swarm-2.1.140.20020514-1.i386.rpm

The problem does not come up on any of my machines or machines in my lab 
. Several people say the RPMs work fine on their systems.

And the gdb info is:

(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/pauljohn/swarm/sss-2.1/sss

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x4056d606 in H5T_vlen_mark () from /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4056d606 in H5T_vlen_mark () from /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.0
#1  0x4054a35e in H5Tvlen_create () from /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.0
#2  0x40541fc9 in H5T_init_interface () from /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.0
#3  0x40540812 in H5T_init () from /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.0
#4  0x404cdc05 in H5_init_library () from /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.0
#5  0x404e20e2 in H5Eget_auto () from /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.0
#6  0x401e8a4a in suppress_messages (func=0xbffff6f0)
    at 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/def
obj/HDF5Object.m:174
#7  0x401eb455 in hdf5_open_file (
    name=0x8094470 "/home/pauljohn/swarmArchiver.hdf", flags=0)
    at 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/def
obj/HDF5Object.m:1090
#8  0x401ec5d6 in _i_HDF5_c__createEnd (self=0x8094418, _cmd=0x402163b8)
    at 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/def
obj/HDF5Object.m:1254
#9  0x401e0628 in _i_HDF5Archiver_c__createEnd (self=0x8093f60,
    _cmd=0x4021c170)
    at 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/def
obj/HDF5Archiver.m:93
#10 0x401f633a in initDefobj (_arguments=0x80939c8)
    at 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/def
obj/defobj.m:170
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#11 0x40016180 in _i_SwarmEnvironment__createEnd (self=0x80933a8,
    _cmd=0x40018468)
    at 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/SwarmEnvironment.m:108
#12 0x400168f6 in _initSwarm_ (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa74,
    appName=0x804c540 "sss", version=0x804c53c "2.1",
    bugAddress=0x804c528 "address@hidden", argumentsClass=0x0,
    options=0x0, optionFunc=0, forceBatchMode=0 '\0',
    inhibitExecutableSearchFlag=0 '\0')
    at 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/SwarmEnvironment.m:292
#13 0x08048f83 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa74) at main.m:15
#14 0x406da0c4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6


--
Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn
University of Kansas                  Office: (785) 864-9086
Lawrence, Kansas 66045                FAX: (785) 864-5700


                 ==================================
  Swarm-Support is for discussion of the technical details of the day
  to day usage of Swarm.  For list administration needs (esp.
  [un]subscribing), please send a message to <address@hidden>
  with "help" in the body of the message.