I just got the following error message, then gedit terminated gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libspiatk.so: undefined symbol: spi_dbus_general_error Apparently, adding libspicommon.la to LIBADD does not cause it to be linked statically. What really happens is what libspiatk.so simply misses the necessary symbols, leading to a crash if they are needed. This is not visible normally because only the error path in accessible-adaptor.c:impl_getChildAtIndex() (and collection-adaptor.c) uses spi_dbus_general_error, in particular, getChildAtIndex needs spi_dbus_general_error if it is missing its argument. Consequently, a D-Bus getChildAtIndex method call on a random accessible will crash the target application. My automake/libtool knowledge is too much lacking to provide a patch right away, it should be relatively easy to sort out though.
Correcting myself, of course not every random getChildAtIndex D-Bus method call will crash the target application, only one with a missing argument.
spi_dbus_general_error is no longer used in getChildAtIndex. The method has been re-introduced, and is used in the collections API. It was previously not being built. The re-introduction of the method is in commit f3a607bd94d3a48a7de1dbcac.
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