Problem running tor-0.2.0.32 on Ubuntu 8.04

[Sambuddho Chakravarty <sc2516@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All
I tried compiling tor-0.2.0.32 on Ubuntu 8.04 (off the shelf version - 
running kernel 2.6.24-23-generic , glibc - 2.7 , gcc 4.2.4) . 
Compilation went fine but when trying to run , I get the following error

*** glibc detected *** /bin/tor: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08101de8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7ceb356]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x8d)[0xb7ceccad]
/bin/tor[0x80b9961]
/bin/tor[0x80be13f]
/bin/tor[0x806c463]
/bin/tor[0x806cc22]
/bin/tor[0x8064194]
/bin/tor[0x80650df]
/bin/tor[0x8092957]
/bin/tor[0x80b6ac2]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7c95450]
/bin/tor[0x804ce31]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-080ee000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 971319     /bin/tor
080ee000-080f1000 rw-p 000a5000 08:06 971319     /bin/tor
080f1000-08121000 rw-p 080f1000 00:00 0          [heap]
b7b00000-b7b21000 rw-p b7b00000 00:00 0
b7b21000-b7c00000 ---p b7b21000 00:00 0
b7c31000-b7c3b000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 897621     /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7c3b000-b7c3c000 rw-p 0000a000 08:06 897621     /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7c48000-b7c4a000 rw-p b7c48000 00:00 0
b7c4a000-b7c59000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 914930     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libresolv-2.7.so
b7c59000-b7c5b000 rw-p 0000f000 08:06 914930     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libresolv-2.7.so
b7c5b000-b7c5d000 rw-p b7c5b000 00:00 0
b7c5d000-b7c64000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 914931     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt-2.7.so
b7c64000-b7c66000 rw-p 00006000 08:06 914931     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt-2.7.so
b7c66000-b7c7a000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 914921     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.7.so
b7c7a000-b7c7c000 rw-p 00013000 08:06 914921     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.7.so
b7c7c000-b7c7f000 rw-p b7c7c000 00:00 0
b7c7f000-b7dc8000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 914915     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so
b7dc8000-b7dc9000 r--p 00149000 08:06 914915     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so
b7dc9000-b7dcb000 rw-p 0014a000 08:06 914915     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so
b7dcb000-b7dce000 rw-p b7dcb000 00:00 0
b7dce000-b7de1000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1158756    
/usr/lib/libevent-1.3e.so.1.0.3
b7de1000-b7de2000 rw-p 00013000 08:06 1158756    
/usr/lib/libevent-1.3e.so.1.0.3
b7de2000-b7de3000 rw-p b7de2000 00:00 0
b7de3000-b7de5000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 914918     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.7.so
b7de5000-b7de7000 rw-p 00001000 08:06 914918     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.7.so
b7de7000-b7dfb000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 914929     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.7.so
b7dfb000-b7dfd000 rw-p 00013000 08:06 914929     
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.7.so
b7dfd000-b7dff000 rw-p b7dfd000 00:00 0
b7dff000-b7f29000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1436739    
/usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
b7f29000-b7f3e000 rw-p 00129000 08:06 1436739    
/usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
b7f3e000-b7f42000 rw-p b7f3e000 00:00 0
b7f42000-b7f80000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1436741    
/usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8
b7f80000-b7f84000 rw-p 0003d000 08:06 1436741    
/usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8
b7f84000-b7f98000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 1413862    /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
b7f98000-b7f99000 rw-p 00013000 08:06 1413862    /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
b7fa4000-b7fa7000 rw-p b7fa4000 00:00 0
b7fa7000-b7fa8000 r-xp b7fa7000 00:00 0          [vdso]
b7fa8000-b7fc2000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 897612     /lib/ld-2.7.so
b7fc2000-b7fc4000 rw-p 00019000 08:06 897612     /lib/ld-2.7.so
bfeea000-bfeff000 rw-p bffeb000 00:00 0          [stack]


Any reason why I am getting this ? How can this be fixed ?

Thanks
Sambuddho