Hello Stewart,
I've been trying for quite a while now to get back to a useable
installation of xcircuit on my macbook. Before a recent OS update I had
a working installation of xcircuit-3.7.26 but now I can't even get that
version to build (I'll tack on the make output error at the end of this
email). I can get the newest stable version 3.7.39 to install
successfully either with building myself or using macports to install
but both of them crash at runtime. The software starts X11, opens the
drawing window then aborts and it's wish8.5 that crashes. This happens
regardless of whether it is built using the macports installed version
of tcl/tk or the built in one (which I know isn't supposed to work).
This is the crashlog for it running using the mapcorts installed wish:
Process: wish8.5 [22167] Path:
/opt/local/bin/wish8.5 Identifier: wish8.5 Version: ???
(???) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: bash [17445]
I think that the Tcl/Tk port is good, given that it seems to have
passed a bunch of initialization code. It has crashed inside the
routine findcrashfiles() on a call to sprintf(), which is probably
filelist.c line 261:
sprintf(_STR, "%s/%s", xobjs.tempdir, dp->d_name);
If you can run a debugger, it would be helpful to stop at the crash
point, bring the scope up to this routine, and check the values of
xobjs.tempdir and dp->d_name. My suspicion is that the use of /tmp
as a directory to save backup files may not be compatible with Mac OS-X's
way of doing things, although the only thing I can think of that would
cause a crash would be a NULL value of dp->d_name. It seems unlikely,
but I can't think of anything else. Unless the temp directory and temp
filename are so long that they exceed the 250 character limit of _STR.
That also seems unlikely.
---Tim
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