On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Dmitry Karpeev wrote:

Okay, but what's going on with petsc-3.1 on that machine? It doesn't fail. Is that because dlsym(0,string) works? Or was dynamic loading disabled in it?

--with-dynamic=0 is usually the default buid. petsc-3.1 never did dlopen()/dlsym() for this case - but petsc-dev does do dlopen()/dlsym() even with --with-dynamic=0 for basic ex2 example code - hece it crashes. Satish