It should not be broken. Are you sure that you do not have some old files from previous builds of Csound around ? That should explain why you get the error. In particular, as you seem to install to /usr, make sure that there are no old files in /usr/local. On Monday 13 February 2006 18:36, Jeremy Henty wrote: > Building Csound5 from source installs a broken plugin > /usr/lib/csound/plugins/libstdutil.so . The csound executable dies > instantly with "Error in pre-initialisation function of module > 'libstdutil.so'". If I delete that plugin it runs OK (at least on a > simple test CSD file). > > Strangely, I've been successfully running a Csound I updated from CVS > late last year. That version doesn't install this plugin. > > It can't be right that have to delete this file to get Csound to run, > so how do I fix this? System details as follows: