happened to me some time ago too, switching to root solved the problem for me...
somehow the mico idl compiler seems to core dump when run by a non root user...

someone knows more about it?

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Todd Pepper wrote:
> I am eager to try the KOffice suite and so I have downloaded the
> required packages from the KOffice site (QT, Mico, Kdelibs, and
> KOffice).  Both QT and Mico installed without a hitch.  However, I'm
> having a difficult time installing Kdelibs.  I am following the install
> guide found on the "Download and Install the Source" page at
> koffice.kde.org.  This guide has been helpful, I wish more developers
> would post a guide for installing all required libraries.  After running
> the configure script in the kdelibs directory I have run "make all"
> which does as one expects until I receive this message:
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pepperta/Downloads/kdelibs/corba'
> Making all in kom
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/pepperta/Downloads/kdelibs/corba/kom'
> 
> /usr/local/bin/idl --relative-paths --query-server-for-narrow --any
> --c++-suffix cc ./kom.idl
> make[3]: *** [kom.h] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/pepperta/Downloads/kdelibs/corba/kom'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pepperta/Downloads/kdelibs/corba'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pepperta/Downloads/kdelibs'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
> I have tried making kom.h manually with "make kom.h" to which I just get
> a  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> todd
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