[rkward-users] [Help] RE: Mac installation (Snow Leopard)

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The following forum message was posted by tfry at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkward/forums/forum/165574/topic/4531337:

Hi!

[quote]it took a whole day because I had to recompile everything[/quote]

Yes, that really is painful. Sorry to hear that it did not even work out in
the end.

[quote]In any case I have some capacity in this regard and if you believe I
could help you in making the Mac version working (or more easily available)
I'll be glad to help. [/quote]

Well, that would really be absolutely wonderful! At the moment we quite simply
lack a developer with a Mac, and it's hard to achieve any decent Mac support
with only intermittent access to a Mac. Probably it will be easiest to discuss
the details on the rkward-devel mailing list. However, here are some first pointers
towards debugging this:

1) Try starting rkward with 
[code]rkward --debug-level 5[/code]
This will generate files rkwardXXXXXX.tmp and rkward.rbackendXXXXXX.tmp . I'm
not sure, where KDE puts its temporary files on the Mac, but I guess it will
be /tmp/kde-USERNAME as on Unix. The file to look at first is rkwardXXXXXX.tmp.
You will see that this contains a trace of function calls (and a few more debug
messages), so this will give you some idea of when the crash happens. Post this
to rkward-devel, if you need help (depending on the size, consider posting only
the last 100 lines or so).

2) To run rkward through a debugger, use
[code]rkward --debugger 'gdb [--options]'[/code]
(/sw/opt/kde4/x11/bin/rkward is just a wrapper script, so you can't run 'gdb
rkward', directly). Note that rkward is split into two processes, and currently,
this will debug the frontend process, only. But probably it is also the frontend
process that is causing trouble.

I'm very eager to achieve some decent Mac support, and I'm very much looking
forward to working with you on this!

Regards
Thomas