VMD-L Mailing List

From: brad noyes (brad_at_wpi.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 20:59:27 CDT

Hi,
I can successfully compile and run VMD on FreeBSD 5.1. I have no FreeBSD 4.8
machine at the moment, so i can't reproduce you're envorinment. But can you
tell us what version of VMD you are running and what options you are
compiling with?
--Brad

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 15:43, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> hi, just got your mail and do the gdb thing: ....
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x2855ad34 in strncat () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
> (gdb) where
> #0 0x2855ad34 in strncat () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
> #1 0x80d0232 in Inform::operator<< ()
> #2 0x22 in ?? ()
> (gdb) ....
> (this is vmd compiled with MESA instead of OPENGL option.)
> I wish I can add a username for you on my machine, it's just my school add
> firewall to it, so my 'server' is actually a PC, nobody can access from the
> outside. :(
>
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:27:04 -0500, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > Tsu-Fan,
> > I'm hoping to get a FreeBSD compile box setup here for doing
> > VMD testing, but as I'm preparing to leave for Siggraph all next
> > week, I won't be able to get it done until after I return. I know
> > some others have successfully built VMD on FreeBSD, so perhaps they
> > can chime in with a suggestion or two until I'm able to do a build
> > locally to try it out. One major thing to try would be to run your
> > compiled binary within 'gdb' and do a 'where' command on it when it
> > crashes, its probably something very simple...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:23:12PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> >> hi, vmd group, I just join this mailing list, I am trying to compile VMD
> >> on freebsd 4.8, I can compile it, but it core dumped when I run it, has
> >> anybody made it yet?
> >>
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