[Xcircuit-dev] xcircuit for mac os 10.5?

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Phyllis,

A Happy New Year to you, too!

> I gave a try at building xcircuit under leopard.  I used the 3.6.127 tarball.
> Except for the "alocal" problem, which was solved as in the directions on the
> install page, all went well.
> I have the current Xquartz installed, and X11 programs seem to work ok.
> When I type "xcircuit" the wish shell starts, hangs, and crashes.

Often the reason for this kind of startup crash is the failure to find
install files (in spite of my attempting a number of times to prevent
it from crashing on an improper setup).  The ultimate source of the problem
can be any number of things.

If the gnu debugger is available with leopard?  If so, try doing
(depending on the install location of the executables)

	gdb /usr/local/lib/xcircuit-3.6/xcircexec
	run

This bypasses the wish console, but I would expect it to crash under
the same conditions.  If it does, you can print the stack trace with
"bt".  Send me the stack trace and your "config.log" file from the
source directory, and hopefully I can track the problem from that.

					Regards,
					Tim

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