Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 11, 2012, at 11:49 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 11-Aug-2012, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | The the "thread" subdirectory references removed and the findFirst.diff 
> patch applied, my build completes.  When I run, I encounter ...
> | 
> | The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality 
> safely. You MUST exec().
> | Break on 
> __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
>  to debug.
> | panic: Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
> | attempting to save variables to `octave-workspace'...
> | 
> | The first two lines show up 17 times. I cut the other 16 out above.
> | 
> | Same result from gdb, and the backtrace is empty.
> 
> Try commenting out the call to dissociate_terminal in octave_start_gui
> in gui/src/octave-gui.cc.  Does that avoid this problem?  If you do
> that and type something like "rand (1000, 1)" does the pager correctly
> accept input when the focus is in the GUI command window?
> 
> jwe


That avoids the problem above, but I now see an "Abort trap: 6".  The MacOS 
crash log is attached.

Ben

octave_2012-08-11-120850_Bens-MacBook-Pro.crash
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