Dave,
take a look at this ...
It's been rumoured that Keith Refson said:
>
> I have succeeded in compiling 1.3.7 on a Sun Sparc solaris 8 system.
> However on startup it puts up one small window with the ominous title
> "gnome segv" and a yellow-bar-on-red-crcle logo.
>
> Starting under gdb reveals:
>
> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> 0x6f0f4 in md5_process_block (buffer=0xffbed6da, len=64, ctx=0xc86ec)
> at guid/md5.c:323
> 323 OP (A, B, C, D, 7, 0xd76aa478);
> (gdb)
>
>
> #0 0x6f0f4 in md5_process_block (buffer=0xffbed6da, len=64, ctx=0xc86ec)
> at guid/md5.c:323
> #1 0x6f050 in md5_process_bytes (buffer=0xffbed69a, len=70, ctx=0xc86ec)
> at guid/md5.c:237
> #2 0x6e700 in init_from_dir (dirname=0xa7eb8 "/proc", max_files=26)
> at guid/guid.c:186
I assume this is because solaris doesn't use /proc the same as linux,
and/or needs root permissions. etc.
---linas
> #3 0x6e8b8 in guid_init () at guid/guid.c:265
> #4 0x6eb14 in guid_new (guid=0x40fed8) at guid/guid.c:374
> #5 0x60f30 in xaccMallocAccountGroup () at Group.c:73
> #6 0x571c4 in gncGetCurrentGroup () at FileDialog.c:540
> #7 0x258d4 in gnc_refresh_main_window () at window-main.c:196
> #8 0x26d44 in mainWindow () at window-main.c:1144
> #9 0x24db8 in gnucash_ui_init () at top-level.c:179
> #10 0x7dc44 in gnucash_lowlev_app_init () at gnucash.c:166
> #11 0x84144 in gwrap_gnucash_lowlev_app_init () at gnc.c:3911
> #12 0xfe7abdd8 in scm_deval (x=1654488, env=1649984) at eval.c:2693
> #13 0xfe7abfbc in scm_deval (x=1654456, env=1649984) at eval.c:2774
> #14 0xfe7abfbc in scm_deval (x=1654400, env=1649984) at eval.c:2774
> #15 0xfe7aa0dc in scm_deval (x=1654368, env=1649984) at eval.c:2130
> #16 0xfe7ae260 in scm_dapply (proc=1654288, arg1=1654112, args=1649984)
> at eval.c:3514
> #17 0xfe7a7a78 in scm_apply (proc=1652472, arg1=10612, args=10612)
> at eval.c:3324
> #18 0xfe7b9afc in gh_call0 (proc=1652472) at gh_funcs.c:150
> #19 0x7dbc4 in gnucash_main_helper (argc=1652472, argv=0xffbeeef4)
> at gnucash.c:134
> #20 0xfe7b9bd4 in gh_launch_pad (closure=0x7d8c0, argc=1, argv=0xffbeeef4)
> at gh_init.c:60
> #21 0xfe7bcbec in invoke_main_func (body_data=0xffbeed90) at init.c:571
> #22 0xfe7f08e0 in scm_internal_lazy_catch (tag=9076,
> body=0xfe7bcbcc <invoke_main_func>, body_data=0xffbeed90,
> handler=0xfe7f0c48 <scm_handle_by_message>, handler_data=0x0)
> at throw.c:310
> #23 0xfe7bcb94 in scm_boot_guile_1 (base=0xffbeed8c, closure=0xffbeed90)
> at init.c:545
> #24 0xfe7bc7f4 in scm_boot_guile (argc=1, argv=0xffbeeef4,
> main_func=0xfe7b9bc4 <gh_launch_pad>, closure=0x7d8c0) at init.c:405
> #25 0xfe7b9c10 in gh_enter (argc=1, argv=0xffbeeef4,
> c_main_prog=0x7d8c0 <gnucash_main_helper>) at gh_init.c:70
> #26 0x7dd08 in main (argc=1, argv=0xffbeeef4) at gnucash.c:211
>
> Anythougts about how to procees will be welcome...
>
> Keith REfson
>
> --
> Dr Keith Refson, "Paradigm is a word too often used by those who would
> Dept of Earth Sciences like to have a new idea but cannot think of one."
> Parks Road, -- Mervyn King, Deputy Governor, Bank of England
> Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
> Keith.Refson@ Tel: 01865 272026
> earth.ox.ac.uk Fax: 01865 272072
>
