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From: tscheng_at_ic.sunysb.edu
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 08:00:42 CDT

Hi, glad to hear from someone who is also runnign freebsd, my option is
simple, only opengl, tcl tk.

Eureka!

Best regards

Tsu-Fan Cheng
Department of Pathology
SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, brad noyes wrote:

> 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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>