grace@5.1.23: crashes with SIGSYS on mavericks

[slabrosse@…]

I just installed macports (2.2.1) on a new machine running under mavericks (10.9.2) and the first port I installed, grace (@5.1.23), does not work. It launches the window but immediately crashes with the following message :

xmgrace 

Oops! Got SIGSYS

Please use "Help/Comments" to report the bug.
Abort trap: 6

I tried to launch the app from both a terminal and a xterm with the exact same result. I run grace on another machine with mavericks but this machine was upgraded and uses an older version of macports and grace. Thanks for your help...

Stephane

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

Sorry, the grace port has no maintainer right now. You should contact the developers of grace directly.

[mlund (Mikael Lund)]

Cc Me! I've had the same problem on several new installs.

[mlund (Mikael Lund)]

Could the problem be related to clang as described here:

​https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/27840

[mlund (Mikael Lund)]

Building grace 5.1.23 from source outside macports, the following gives the SIGSYS failure

LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib CPPFLAGS="-O2 -I/opt/local/include/" ./configure

while

LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib CPPFLAGS="-O1 -I/opt/local/include/" ./configure

works fine (Mavericks, 10.9.2). While this could be an easy fix for the port, proper debugging would be better.

[mlund (Mikael Lund)]

Portfile patch

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

Duplicate #43288 has the same patch but additionally increases the revision, which is indeed necessary since this is a runtime failure.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #43782.

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

Hmm, I can't reproduce this. I just built grace in MacPorts on Mavericks and it does not crash for me. I tried using Xcode 5.1.1's clang 3.4svn, MacPorts' clang 3.4 and 3.3, and I tried setting configure.optflags to -O2 (the default is -Os); nothing makes it crash for me.

There is no MacPorts maintainer of grace. You should report this problem to the developers of grace for assistance.

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

In the meantime, I've committed the patch that reduces the optimization level, since that was reported to help.