I forgot to mention that both Damián Viano and Maximiliano Curia played a very significant role into finding out what the problem was.
Also, this was a very tricky problem to find. For the record, when weird bugs turn up in a particular architecture, check that gcc is not complaining about "implicit declaration"s of something. As in: diacanvas2-scan.c: In function 'get_object_types': diacanvas2-scan.c:65: warning: implicit declaration of function 'dia_export_svg_get_type' -- Love, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]