Re: [ccp4bb] SHELX-2013 release and homepage

2013-02-27 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 phew - and people claim, macs were user-friendly. On Linux you just add '-static' (at least for command line tools as the shelx programs) and make the sane assumption that the kernel is less than say 10 years old... Tim On 02/26/2013 04:50 PM,

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELX-2013 release and homepage

2013-02-27 Thread James Stroud
The underlying issue is that the implementation of OS X dynamic linking is dependent system architecture. As I understand it, OS X 10.5.8 has a 32 bit kernel, so its dynamic linking is not forward-compatible with 64 bit OS X versions, for which SHELX-2013 seems to built. Also, to be fair, it's

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELX-2013 release and homepage

2013-02-27 Thread George Sheldrick
After consulting several Mac users, I decided that there were very few 32-bit Mac operating systems still in use by crystallographers, so (as stated on the new SHELX homepage) I am only providing a 64-bit executables for Macs. The Mac executables do not run on old Macs with PPC processors

[ccp4bb] SHELX-2013 release and homepage

2013-02-26 Thread George Sheldrick
As some of you have already discovered, there is a major new release of the whole of SHELX (the first since 1997) complete with a new homepage that should make downloads easier. To obtain the programs, please point your browser to: http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/SHELX/ and then 'register' (top

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELX-2013 release and homepage

2013-02-26 Thread Guangyu Zhu
I just downloaded it. I'm using Mac 10.5.8 and getting error messages: dyld: unknown required load command 0x8022 Trace/BPT trap Google search shows that: You should contact the developer of this application. Only the developer can fix this. The application was incorrectly built on a OS X