MacOSX Sierra xgterm doesn’t launch

bmiszalski wrote on Oct 30, 2017

Hi,

I've tried to get IRAF up and running on a quite new Mac installation (10.12.5), but xgterm is not cooperating. I can't get it to launch:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/X11/lib";/iraf/iraf/vendor/x11iraf/bin.macintel/xgterm

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.4.dylib

Referenced from: /iraf/iraf/vendor/x11iraf/bin.macintel/xgterm

Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:

/usr/X11/lib/libXpm.4.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

/opt/local/lib/libXpm.4.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.4.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

/opt/local/lib/libXpm.4.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Abort trap: 6

I tried recompiling xgterm but didn't get very far as there were far too many errors. Actually, I could get most of the components of xgterm to compile, but not libobm needed to finish it completely.

I used macports to setup X11 (quartz-wm 1.3.2).

Any ideas?

Best regards,

Brent.

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bmiszalski wrote on Oct 31, 2017

Ok, I finally got it to work.

I suspected the issue was because most macports libraries are 64 bit.

Recompiling them with the +universal flag did the trick e.g.

sudo port -s -v -n upgrade --force xpm +universal

sudo port -s -v -n upgrade --force xorg-libXmu +universal

Some of the other X11 packages may also need recompiling, but try these first.

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