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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/12/2014 01:19 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> On 04/11/2014 08:40 PM, Jean-Paul Louis wrote:
>> As the Subject says,
>> When I open KiCad, then click on “Help", then on “KiCad Manual” or “Getting started with LiCad”, it crashes.
>> The “Copy Version Information" sub-menu is OK, and shown below.
>>
>> Application: kicad
>> Version: (2014-04-11 BZR 4798)-product Release build
>> wxWidgets: Version 3.0.0 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC 4.2.1,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
>> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 13.1.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
>> Boost version: 1.54.0
>>          USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>>          USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>          USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
>>          BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>>
>> I also attach the file that contains what was on the Mac screen right after the crash.
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>> This is with the last build, but also happens with previous builds that I tried (like 4778).
>> my Mac OS X is still a crude build, as I do not have yet all the docs loaded (not sure why)
>>
>> Only KiCad crashes. The other programs pop a screen telling me that I miss the manual files.
>>
>> I hope someone can tell me what is wrong with my build.
>> I am open to try anything that can help to have a piper build on Mac OS X.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm looking at this and see it is *not* OSX specific.  I am duplicating it on linux and
> expect it to be same on Windows.
> 
> I have some of it ironed out already.  Should have it fully resolved soon.
> 
> Thanks for what is a good bug report.
> 
> Dick


Ok, maybe rev 4801 will fix this.