[Remind-Fans] remind & osx & geektool sample

[Danstan Bagenda]

Hi Andreas,

I apologize for the delay in response...

Thanks much for the help.  The good news is that my
Remind is running again.

I tried the suggestions that both you & Paul
sunbmitted  & the error message persisted.

However, the good news is that a re-start of the
macbook resulted in remind working again by itself (I
rarely ever turn off the mac ).  I did nothing else...
 

I recall though from long decades ago doing some
programming (Fortran & some C)  with pointers that
segementation faults were related to attempts to point
to addresses in memory that were out of range etc..  I
dont know that much so I wonder why this error
suddenly  occurred...

Nonetheless,  the info on installing Remind (&
DarwinPorts) is especially useful.

Thanks again to  you,  Paul & Henry for the
assistance

Danstan 





--- "A. Klostermaier" <remind-fan at klostermaier.de>
wrote:

> Bezugnehmend auf Ihr E-Mail/Referring to your e-mail
> vom/from 20.07.2006 um/at 3:02 Uhr:
> 
> >Andreas, 
> >
> >This is impressive.  I oo was using the same
> >combination (OSX, mac intel,  remind & geektools)
> >until a a few days ago when my remind crashed (I
> >posted earlier to see if there any ideas from the
> >list) & has refused to work even from the terminal.
> 
> >Since you are using the same combination, may I ask
> >how you did your remind installation - ie was it
> via
> >the osx installer or compiling the source code?   I
> >have tried to do a fresh  remind install without
> any
> >success..
> 
> I do not have the solution for your problem, but
> I'll tell you my experiences with the installation
> of remind on OSX, maybe it'll help anyway.
> 
> I downloaded and compiled the sources of
> remind-03.00.23 directly on my Powerbook. You need
> the DeveloperTools to do so (and they are included
> on your Mac-CDs). Of course this approach will not
> be easy if you have never done this before.
> 
> When I switched to the Intel MacBook, I had to
> recompile remind-03.00.23, which worked flawlessly.
> I then tried to compile the sources of
> remind-03.00.24 but it wouldn't work:
> 
> gcc -c -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I. -I. rem2ps.c
> rem2ps.c:80: error: parse error before '*' token
> make[1]: *** [rem2ps.o] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Then I tried to install remind-03.00.24 with
> DarwinPorts, which worked fine. I can only recommend
> DarwinPorts a lot, this is a very easy,
> undertandable and stable process!! Unfortunately,
> when installing DarwinPorts you cannot change the
> compilation-variables (at least I do not know how
> to), which means that I only get the English
> version.
> 
> So current status: I have two versions installed:
> 
> remind-03.00.23 in German via direct compilation in
> /usr/local/bin
> remind-03.00.24 in English via DarwinPorts in
> /opt/local/bin/
> 
> 
> For your problem:
> you should first skip the rem-script and try remind
> directly to see if it produces any output or crashes
> right away. The problem might also be in your
> .reminders-file - because if remind worked before
> and you haven't changed anything, then there is no
> general problem in the code or compilation. Rem is a
> script that starts remind with ~/.reminders as
> default, so try to replace .reminders with a very
> simple file to check this out.
> 
> Andreas
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