Re: DDD 3.3.12 (i386-apple-darwin20.1.0) gets Xt error

Can you try building DDD from the Subversion repository?

The released version is badly out of date.

On 10/7/21 6:30 PM, William Oquendo wrote:
> Hi, I was never able to make ddd run on my mac. And even running gdb is 
> difficult, with the code signing and so on. Apple is really pushing 
> lldb. When I need to use ddd and its plotting capabilities, I use a 
> linux virtual machine. Sorry for not giving a solution. Just wanted to 
> share my experience with you.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 3:32 PM Daryl Lee <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Greetings!
> 
>     I'm brushing off my assembly language skills by building a Forth
>     interpreter from scratch on my Mac (V. 11.6).  The commands to build
>     the
>     executable are:
> 
>     nasm -g -f macho64 -o forth.o forth.asm
>     ld -macosx_version_min 11.0.0
>     -L/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib -lSystem
>     -o forth forth.o
> 
>     After a few days with lldb (which runs very nicely on that
>     executable) I
>     decided to give ddd a try.  I ran "brew install ddd" and that ran
>     cleanly. Then when I tried to debug my NASM assembly language program
>     with "ddd forth" (and also just "ddd"), I got this:
> 
>     ======
>     $ddd forth
>     Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
>     Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
>     Creating "/Users/principal/.ddd/"...
>     Creating "/Users/principal/.ddd/"...done.
>     Creating "/Users/principal/.ddd/sessions/"...
>     Creating "/Users/principal/.ddd/sessions/"...done.
>     Creating "/Users/principal/.ddd/themes/"...
>     Creating "/Users/principal/.ddd/themes/"...done.
>     Error: Unresolved inheritance operation
> 
>     Xt error (Unresolved inheritance operation).
> 
>     Oops!  You have found a bug in DDD.
> 
>     If you can reproduce this bug, please send a bug report
>     to <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, giving a subject like
> 
>           DDD 3.3.12 (i386-apple-darwin20.1.0) gets Xt error
> 
>     To enable us to fix the bug, you should include the following
>     information:
>     * What you were doing to get this message.  Report all the facts.
>     * The contents of the `~/.ddd/log' file as generated by this session.
>     Please read also the section "Reporting Bugs" in the DDD manua
>     We thank you for your support.
> 
>     ddd: Cannot save options
>     ========
> 
>     The log file contents follow:
> 
>     GNU DDD 3.3.12 (i386-apple-darwin20.1.0)
>     Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
>     Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany.
>     Copyright (C) 2001 Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
>     Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
>     Compiled with GCC Apple LLVM 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.27)
>     Requires X11R6, Xt11R7, Motif 2.3.8 (Motif Version 2.3.8)
>     Includes XPM 3.4.11, Athena Panner (7000002L), Manual, App defaults,
>     DDD
>     core
>     Built 2020-11-17 by (unknown).
>     $  ddd forth
>     !  Xt error: Unresolved inheritance operation
>     !  Xt error
>     !  Cannot save options
> 
>     "ddd --manual" actually worked but I couldn't figure out how to
>     navigate
>     it (I haven't used GNU's info format in a couple of decades--sorry).
> 
>     -- 
> 
>     Daryl Lee
>     www.daryllee.com <http://www.daryllee.com>
>     Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one
>     can go.
>         -- T.S. Eliot.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Best regards / Cordialmente,
> 
> William-Fernando Oquendo
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Michael Eager