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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 00:16:02 CDT

Dear Tsu-Fan,
  Did you see the email a few days back about linking with
-lpthr instead of -lpthread, which apparently works around
some weird bug in the FreeBSD threads library?? Give that a try.
The details were posted a few days back if I recall correctly.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:00:19PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> hi vmders,
> I was trying to run my own version of vmd on freebsd 4.8 several months
> ago, but being held up by chores, I just picked it up and try to do from
> scratch. here is what i found:
> compile went smooth after i edit Makefile to fit the system, but it
> crash when i execute it, by gdb, it said:
> ----(gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/home/tfcheng/src/vmdcvs/vmd/FREEBSD/vmd_FREEBSD
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> Info) VMD for FREEBSD, version 1.8.2b3 (September 16, 2003)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> (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.
> 0x28579a44 in strstr () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
> (gdb) where
> #0 0x28579a44 in strstr () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
> #1 0x8073c3c in OpenGLRenderer::setup_initial_opengl_state ()
> #2 0x22 in ?? ()
> (gdb)
>
> in configure file, it said vmd support freebsd 5.x, does this matter?
>
>
>
> Best Regards, :-)
>
> Tsu-Fan Cheng [¾G¯ª¦|] (BIG5)
> SUNY at Stony Brook
> Stony Brook, NY, 11794
>
> I am self-obsessed, I know! 

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