grace: xmgrace crashes with SIGSYS in yosemite

[gezelter@…]

% xmgrace 

Oops! Got SIGSYS

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

[gezelter@…]

This does not appear to be a duplicate of #42364, as the optimization level in the port file is already set to -O1

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

Did you do what the error message said ("use 'Help/Comments' to report the bug)"? This sounds like a problem to be reported to the developers.

[gezelter@…]

I think I may have figured something out - a gdb backtrace points to a t1lib collision between the bundled t1lib in grace and the t1lib installed by macports. This seems to help:

sudo port uninstall grace
sudo port uninstall t1lib
sudo port install grace

It may be that the optimization problem is present in the t1lib port.

[basmac]

The above suggestion fixed it for us - uninstall grace,t1lib, install grace

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

​http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2801

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

In any case grace shouldn't opportunistically link against t1lib and netcdf. Something along the following lines might be needed (untested):

Portfile

@@ -37 +37 @@
 configure.optflags  -O1
 configure.pre_args  --prefix=${prefix}/lib
 configure.args      --with-helpviewer="${prefix}/bin/openbrowser ${prefix}/share/doc/${name}/`basename %s`" \
-                    --x-include=${prefix}/include --x-lib=${prefix}/lib
+                    --x-include=${prefix}/include \
+                    --x-lib=${prefix}/lib \
+                    --with-bundled-t1lib \
+                    --disable-netcdf
 
 post-destroot {
     xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc
@@ -53 +56 @@
 
 variant netcdf description {Support for NetCDF data files} {
   depends_lib-append        port:netcdf
-  configure.args-append     --enable-netcdf
+  configure.args-replace    --disable-netcdf --enable-netcdf
 }
 
 livecheck.type      regex

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Plus another comment: making pdflib optional and disabling it by default would make the port distributable. I'm not sure if that's helpful though as I'm not using grace directly, I'm only occasionally using a port that depends on it.

[mjosedelinares@…]

Replying to gezelter@…:

I think I may have figured something out - a gdb backtrace points to a t1lib collision between the bundled t1lib in grace and the t1lib installed by macports. This seems to help:

sudo port uninstall grace
sudo port uninstall t1lib
sudo port install grace

It may be that the optimization problem is present in the t1lib port.

I have exactly the same problem, but when I try to do your suggestion it's said "sudo: port: command not found". Even I have tried to uninstall it with "sudo make uninstall" it is said "make: * No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.". I don't know what else I can do. I need to be able to use xmgrace.

[Russell-Jones-OxPhys (Russell Jones)]

Replying to mjosedelinares@…:

Replying to gezelter@…:

I think I may have figured something out - a gdb backtrace points to a t1lib collision between the bundled t1lib in grace and the t1lib installed by macports. This seems to help:

sudo port uninstall grace
sudo port uninstall t1lib
sudo port install grace

It may be that the optimization problem is present in the t1lib port.

I have exactly the same problem, but when I try to do your suggestion it's said "sudo: port: command not found". Even I have tried to uninstall it with "sudo make uninstall" it is said "make: * No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.". I don't know what else I can do. I need to be able to use xmgrace.

It sounds like you don't have MacPorts installed correctly. See https://www.macports.org/install.php The instructions are for installing via MacPorts, not directly from the source.

[marc.octavo@…]

I had the same problem and solved it adding +universal variant

sudo port install grace +universal

[phillicl@…]

This worked for me as well

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Cc people from duplicates #47122 and #49893.