[Bioperl-l] Query re segementation error from Bio::Index::Fasta

[Lincoln Stein]

Does it only happen with NDBM installed, or is it happening with DB_File as 
well?  I have been having problems with NDBM-based scripts of all sorts 
segfaulting since updating to 5.6.1

Lincoln

On Monday 16 December 2002 02:03 pm, Peter Schattner wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'm not sure whether I've found a bug or I'm just being dumb.
>
> When I run this test script:
> ###########
>
> #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use Bio::Index::Fasta;
> my $inx = Bio::Index::Fasta->new('-filename' =>
> '/home/peter/genome_data/yeast/Other_yeast.index');
>
> exit(0);
>
> sub test {
>     my ($record_id) = @_;
>     my $record;
>     if ($record_id) {  $record = $inx->fetch($record_id)};
> }
> ###########
>
> I get:
>
> [peter@pschattner test]$ perl -w scripts/test-debug.segfault.pl
> Segmentation fault
>
> When I move one line so the script reads:
> ###########
>
> #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use Bio::Index::Fasta;
>
> exit(0);
>
> sub test {
>     my ($record_id) = @_;
>     my $record;
>     my $inx = Bio::Index::Fasta->new('-filename' =>
> '/home/peter/genome_data/yeast/Other_yeast.index');
>     if ($record_id) {  $record = $inx->fetch($record_id)};
> }
> ###########
>
> The segmentation fault message goes away:
> [peter@pschattner test]$ perl -w scripts/test-debug.seg-no-fault.pl
> [peter@pschattner test]$
>
> Although moving the line has solved my problem, I would sure like to
> know why the first script crashes. Is the first script doing something
> illegal or is there a bug in Bio::Index?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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