[EMBOSS] emboss on redhat enterprise linux 64-bit

[Nicolas Joly]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:45:54AM +0000, Tim Troup wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install emboss version 2.8.0 on a dual 64-bit xeon  
> processor machine running redhat enterprise linux. The reason I am  
> installing version 2.8.0 is because I wish to make emboss available  
> as a set of web services via soaplab (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/soaplab/)  
> and currently soaplab is tied to version 2.8.0 (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ 
> soaplab/ServiceSets.html).
> 
> I configured the install as follows:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/emboss --without-x --enable-64
> 
> then did make and make install with no obvious error messages.
> 
> However, when i try to run any of the apps from the command line I  get:
> 
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Anyone got any tips as to how to get emboss running on this kind of  
> set up?

We already saw this on our amd64 machine running CenOS 3.6 (RHEL
clone). It looks like a compiler/glibc/... bug as it disappeared when
we upgraded the machines to CentOS 4.2.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.