[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10076) Crash under Mac OS X

["Dylan Ladwig" <dylanl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10076 >

Do you want any information from the ./configure readout?
I can get a new copy of the source. (if you can't do it twice with the 
same source)

On Sep 13, 2004, at 3:41 AM, Jason Short wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10076 >
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> Jason Short wrote:
>> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10076 >
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>> Mateusz Stefek wrote:
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>>> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10076 >
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>>>> [dylanl@xxxxxxxxxxx - Sun Sep 12 23:57:55 2004]:
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>>>> I compiled the source code on Mac OS X Panther's x11, using the
>>>> commands ./configure --with-included-gettext and make install to
>>>> install Freeciv (from source) and whenever I try to zoom in on a
>>>> village, the game crashes.
>>>
>>>
>>> (OT)
>>> Someone uses included gettext. We cannot remove it.
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>> Yes we can.  They can just as easily install gettext as freeciv.  We
>> even have a tarball for download in our FTP.  In particular, it's
>> possible the included gettext is the cause of the problem...
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> Although, installing both gettext and iconv is harder.  You have to
> install first one, then the other, then the first again.  Each has an
> "optional" dependency on the other - one that we probably rely on.  (We
> certainly rely on gettext supporting iconv.  I don't know why iconv
> supports gettext.)
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> Which probably means --with-included-gettext doesn't work if iconv is
> installed but not gettext.  Ugh!  One possible solution is to include
> gettext in the distribution as well, but this may be a problem since it
> has lots of data files (for the charset conversion routines).
>
> This also means if you're on a system that is missing one tool (like
> Solaris, where iconv appears to be broken) and you use gettext as well,
> you probably need to install both.
>
> But this is all speculation.  Someone should test it.
>
> jason
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