Following the request, I downloaded gwave2-20080206.tar.gz. On my Ubuntu 7.10 system, it built without any problems, once I installed a few extra packages, including gwrap-dev.
It fails almost instantly at startup. running under gdb, I get the following stack trace when it segfaults.
$ gdb gwave
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gwave
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1219602768 (LWP 6786)]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1219602768 (LWP 6786)]
0x080558b4 in get_gwave_tooltips () at wavelist.c:424
424 if(!SCM_GOBJECTP(scm_tt))
(gdb) where
#0 0x080558b4 in get_gwave_tooltips () at wavelist.c:424
#1 0x08059760 in mbtn_set_func (mbtn=0x80ea7a8, mfunc=7) at measurebtn.c:135
#2 0x08059912 in measure_button_new (wv=0x0, mfunc=7) at measurebtn.c:54
#3 0x080501a0 in setup_waveform_window () at wavewin.c:346
#4 0x080526f0 in gwave_main (p=0x0, argc=1, argv=0xbfc523c4) at gwave.c:263
#5 0xb7f647d4 in scm_boot_guile () from /usr/lib/libguile.so.12
#6 0x0805275a in main (argc=-1077599292, argv=0xb7fbb460) at gwave.c:166
Hope this helps. For now, my email is:
j.satchell@eris.qinetiq.com