Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 12, 2012, at 4:54 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 11, 2012, at 6:01 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> >
> >> On 11-Aug-2012, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >>
> >> | With that change ...
> >> |
> >> | $ ./run-octave
> >> | panic: Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
> >> | attempting to save variables to `octave-workspace'...
> >>
> >> I have no clue.  What does gdb tell you about where it is crashing?
> >>
> >> jwe
> >
> > Nothing useful.
> >
> > panic: Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
> > attempting to save variables to `octave-workspace'...
> > save to `octave-workspace' complete
> >
> > Program exited normally.
> > (gdb) bt
> > No stack.
> > (gdb)
> >
> > I saw this earlier, but it mysteriously corrected itself when I deleted a 
> > moc_xxxx.cc file and ran make again. I'll make a fresh start with a "make 
> > clean; make" and see what happens.  If the problem persists I'll try 
> > deleting the moc file and see if that makes any difference.
> >
> > Ben
> 
> After "make clean" I had to remove the references to the "thread" 
> subdirectory again.  Once the build complete, I still see the crash.  
> Previously that disappeared after I deleted 
> gui/qterminal/libqterminal/moc_QTerminal.cpp and ran "make" again.  However, 
> as was the case the first time, the new moc_QTerminal.cpp did not contain the 
> "thread" subdirectory reference.
> 
> 
> Sorry, but I'm confused by what you're actually doing. First, may I suggest 
> that you build out of the source tree; so a simple "rm -rf <build_dir>" is 
> enough to restart from scratch and avoid any leftovers. Second, I don't get 
> how the moc file could be different, if yo do something like:
> 
> make
> rm gui/src/qterminal/libqterminal/moc_QTerminal.cpp
> make
> 
> Michael.

You are correct, I've been building in my source tree.  How do I set up a build 
tree?

Ben