Re: [openvrml-develop] Problems with OpenVRML port for MacPorts

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:56 +0100, Raphael Straub wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to create an OpenVRML port for Macports and have  
> encountered some problems.
> 
> The port (see <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16981>) compiles on Mac  
> OS X 10.5.5, but not on 10.4.11 (which I don't have). As you can see  
> from the MacPorts ticket, there are some problems with the detection  
> of the GLU tesselator callback function type in the configure script.  
> The config.log on 10.5.5 shows the same error as on 10.4.11, but here  
> it has no negative effect because 10.5 does not have a varargs argument.

Okay, I'm following up to the ticket for this one.

> Another problem is openvrml-player (OpenVRML 0.17.10 on Mac OS X  
> 10.5.5). When I start openvrml-player, I sometimes get the following  
> error:
> 
> ** (openvrml-player:1316): CRITICAL **: Browser creation failed: Did  
> not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application  
> did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the  
> reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
> 
> When I try to load a VRML file I get
> 
> ERROR:openvrml-player/curlbrowserhost.cpp:345:void  
> openvrml_player_curl_browser_host_load_url 
> (OpenvrmlPlayerCurlBrowserHost*, const char*): assertion failed: (host- 
>  >priv->browser)
> 
> and the player terminates. I have to note that this is with an LDAP  
> user with an NFS mounted home directory. Local users don't have this  
> problem.

I have a report of this on Linux, too; though I don't know whether a
network login in involved.  I don't know what the problem is; but I'll
see if anyone on the D-Bus mailing list can give me a clue.

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