Here's more info on my debug issue.
My code doesn't explicitly use debug or error stuff. It has these includes:
#include "linbox/util/timer.h"
#include "linbox/matrix/sparse-matrix.h"
#include "linbox/matrix/dense-matrix.h"
#include "linbox/ring/modular.h"
#include "linbox/algorithms/blackbox-block-container.h"