Re: Mac OSX Fatal error (6).Abort trap

[Ashley Sanders <a.sanders@mccx.acy.ukz>]

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> I think you need to do "make bootstrap".  If that is what you did, then 
> maybe you could
> go over the steps that you used for us.  Thanks.

I did the make bootstrap. The steps I took are exactly those
as detailed on the web page I referenced in my original message, ie:


   curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.3.tar.gz
   tar zxf texinfo-4.3.tar.gz
   cd texinfo-4.3
   CFLAGS="-g -O2 -D_INTL_REDIRECT_MACROS" ./configure
   make
   sudo make install

   cd ..
   cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs login
   cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
   cd emacs
   ./configure --with-carbon --without-x
   make bootstrap
   sudo make install

Hans-Peter Binder wrote:
 > the right way is to type emacs -nw

Gee, thanks.

The abort() is called from the following line:

     if (!(mwp->mWP = GetNewCWindow (WINDOW_RESOURCE, NULL,
                                     (WindowPtr) -1)))
       abort ();

The Mac help says of GetNewCWindow:

"If GetNewCWindow is unable to read the window or window definition 
function from the resource file, it returns null."

I'm afraid I don't know what the resource file is or why GetNewCWindow
would be unable to read from it.

Any further pointers gratefully received.

Ashley.