Building Shared libraries (mpich/gm)

Has anyone tried (successfully) to build mpich
as a shared library for alpha linux?  I couldn't find 
anything that indicated I needed to do something special
with gm.  I build mpich-1.2..5 after building
gm-1.4 with the additional option --enable-sharedlib.

There is a problem with the mpif77 script.  I had
to hand edit that as the tag @MPILIBNAME did
not get replaced with 'mpich'.   I figure it is
not processed right at installation but I haven't
checked into that yet.

I am able to link the codes but when I try to run
it I get a segmentation fault before any of the
code is actually executed (maybe in the dynamic linking
stage).

Kernel version 2.2.18
gm-1.4 was built as:  --enable-new-features
mpich-1.2..5 was built as: 
./configure -nodevdebug -cflags=-I/usr/local/gm/include -opt=-O2  \
-device=ch_gm -noromio -c ++=ccc --lib="-L/usr/local/gm/lib -lgm" \
-arch=LINUX -fc=fort -cc=ccc -rsh=ssh -gm-can-register \
-memory -shared-memory-support --enable-sharedlib --prefix=/usr/local/mpich

My ld version is 2.9.1
My ldd version is 2.1.1
My gcc version is egcs-2.91.66
My glibc version is 2.1.1

Running executables against the static libaries generated by the same
process works fine.

The error I get when I run the program is below.  The extra text
besides the SIGSEGV line is from a tombstone report.
--------------
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
warning: Hit heuristic-fence-post without finding
warning: enclosing function for address 0x2000000ea34
warning: Hit heuristic-fence-post without finding
warning: enclosing function for address 0x2000000eae4
This warning occurs if you are debugging a function without any symbols
(for example, in a stripped executable).  In that case, you may wish to
increase the size of the search with the `set heuristic-fence-post' command.

Otherwise, you told GDB there was a function where there isn't one, or
(more likely) you have encountered a bug in GDB.
#0  0x2000000ea34 in ?? ()
0x2000000ea34 in ?? ()
--------------------

Although I know it isn't the issue, I have made sure that LD_LIBRARY_PATH
is set correctly on all nodes to /usr/local/mpich/lib/shared.

Thanks,
Craig

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