Hi Fabian, > I've updated my local version to the current trunk but I still get a "Bus error" when running the Waterman Eggert algorithm. In fact the very first of the examples of alignment_local demo causes the problem. I'm working on i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 on a Mac osx. > [...] > So I take it that it has not been initialized properly. Thanks, there was an initialization problem that did not appear under Linux and Windows. It is fixed now. Cheers, Birte