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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: Did anyone compiled xvgr for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1994May24.144909.19704@cm.cf.ac.uk> Keywords: FreeBSD, XFree86 ACE xvgr Sender: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <Cq783F.9Dt@sci.kun.nl> Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 14:49:06 +0000 Lines: 32 In article <Cq783F.9Dt@sci.kun.nl>, Aleksander Wittlin <wittlin@sci.kun.nl> wrote: > >Hello, >did anyone succeeded to run xvgr (data display and >processing software from Paul J. Turner, available via >anon ftp from ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu or ftp.x.org) under FreeBSD >version 1.1 ? I tried to compile both versions, 2.09 and 2.10 >under FreeBSD 1.1R, XFree86 1.2.1 and with binaries of >XView 3.2 from freebsd.cdrom.com packages 1.1 directory. > Both xvgr versions compile without any problems >(a few warnings about pointers refered as integers without >a cast) on 8MB 486DX and both dump core >with "floating point exception" when I try to run them. >gdb seems to indicate that exception is somewhere in the >window creation area (calculation of pixels, ticks etc), >so it may be XView problem as well, but I do not know >enough about XView/xvgr to resolve it. >I will appreciate any helpful comments/remarks. I've got a copy of 2.10 on Freefall but it's not up for ftp. I can arrange for you to get it if you really need it. I found it to be very buggy with many ways of getting it to core dump, mainly due to fpu exceptions often because of divide by zero errors. I fixed a few but didn't pursue it because I lost interest, I just didn't do the things I knew caused it to crash. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@UK.AC.CARDIFF