From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-12-29T03:54:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Fox, FXRuby and fxscintilla

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Yes, weeks.  To be fair, I'm not working at it 24/7.  I usually I spend
> half a day trying, get really frustrated and come back to it 4 days later.

Heh. This sounds like my efforts to get FXRuby ported to Mac OS X ;)

> I've been trying to do that.  Indeed, I'll have to figure out how to do
> that eventually because I'll only be at a Linux machine for a couple of
> weeks.  Then I'm comming back to the Solaris machine I normally use.
> (BTW, the fox compile has failed in both the Sun and Linux machines).

At my day job we build (and ship!) commercial applications on Solaris 
(and Linux, and a host of other OSes). Something unusual is going on here...

> I just tried again, and it failed again:
> 
> In file included from ../include/xincs.h:35,
>                  from FXComposite.cpp:24:
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:-6859: internal error: Segmentation fault
> 
> Again, ./configure --with-opengl=opengl ran fine and gave no errors.  But
> the compile just didn't work.  A very frustrating problem is that the
> compile doesn't always fail at the same place.

<snip>

OK, the facts that it failed with an internal compiler error (for this 
particular attempt) and that the compiles don't always fail in the same 
places are big red flags to me that indicate that there's some more 
fundamental problem, like memory (RAM) failing or some other hardware 
problem. Another possibility is that you're running into a compiler bug 
that has been fixed in more recent versions of gcc. Do you know which 
compiler version you're using? If it's older than, say, gcc-2.95, is it 
possible to upgrade to a more recent version?

> Thank you for trying.  I'll keep working at it, but I'm really stuck.

OK. Keep me posted (or check in with the foxgui-users mailing list) if 
there's something else we can try.