Re: building on macOS?

[Ben Abbott]

> On Nov 6, 2018, at 15:38, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 11/06/2018 05:12 PM, Carlo De Falco wrote:
>>> On 6 Nov 2018, at 22:41, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote
>>>> Running "make V=1" -- finished building w/o problem.
>>>> This is on Fedora 29.
>>> 
>>> I have the same issue on macOS (default branch, with Gui) and "make V=1"
>>> does not help here...
>>> ...
>>> /bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path
>>> /private/tmp/octave-octave-app-20181106-78235-s9u83m/doc/interpreter/ --eval
>>> "interpimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'interpn', 'txt');"
>>> fatal: caught signal Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
>>> 
>>> Sebastian
>> I completed the bisection search, this seems to be the first bad revision 
>> for me :
>> $ hg bisect -g
>> The first bad revision is:
>> changeset:   25994:332be8be16eb
>> user:        John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
>> date:        Fri Sep 28 18:18:09 2018 -0400
>> summary:     dynamically load qt graphics
>> can someone confirm that a00379f6f8c4 builds correctly while 332be8be16eb 
>> fails?
> 
> Can someone also run the failing version under gdb or get a core file and run 
> gdb on that and the octave-gui executable and see where the segfault happens?
> 
> jwe

Apple’s clang supports lldb. run-octave needs to be adjusted to use lldb.

I was looking at this yesterday. I think all the needed translation info is at 
the link below.

https://lldb.llvm.org/lldb-gdb.html

Ben