[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#17042) mac os x (Tiger) and xcode on intel - freeciv crashes machine

["Ian Wallace" <ian@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17042 >

Hello Nathan,

I've tried reinstalling X11, but no success.  I have heard though  
that freeciv can be installed through Fink for the mac, and that is  
what I am going to try next.  I figure that if I can build it from  
source the chance of there being a problem will go down.  I'm going  
to try Fink out tonight.  I'm pretty sure that the problem has to do  
with X11, but I am new to Macs myself, so I don't know exactly how to  
debug them to come up with anything more.  After that, I will look  
into the X11 developer kit.

Do you want to leave the bug as open and unconfirmed for now?  I can  
let you know if Fink solves it.
Ian


On 16-May-06, at 10:11 PM, Nathan Brazil wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17042 >
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> Hi, Ian.  Unfortunately, I am not in possession of an Intel Mac, so I
> am unable to even attempt to reproduce your problem.
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> A shot in the dark would be to try and re-install X11.  Since you
> have Xcode, perhaps you can also try installing the X11 developer
> package in addition to the X11 user package?
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> On May 14, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Ian Wallace wrote:
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>> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17042 >
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>> I have been using freeciv versions 2.0.8 and 2.1 beta for a while and
>> enjoy them a lot.  I recently installed xcode from my install disk so
>> that I could do some unrelated development and ever since then every
>> time that I try to start the freeciv client it locks up my machine
>> and I have to power restart.
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>> I have tried both versions of freeciv and they both cause this
>> problem.  I need xcode to work, but I am willing to try to help chase
>> down the fatal interaction.  My machine is the intel mac, so maybe
>> something with xcode is not quite right.  It seems like X11 is no
>> longer started automatically, so I have tried starting it first but
>> it makes no difference.
>>
>> Thank you for all the effort put in to make this game work so well on
>> so many platforms, it is quite a feat.
>> Ian
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