Re: Problem with GPS under MacOS

[Laurent <lutgenl@icloud.com>]

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 08:56:05 UTC+2, Simon Wright  wrote:

> There are quite a few exception tracebacks in those (surprisingly many,
> really). You can decode them, to an extent (gps_exe is supplied without
> full debug information, so not very helpful at first glance: for
> example, for the first 2017 one,

At least it proves that there is a problem.

> 
> On thinking about it, though, the one that crashed the program probably
> wouldn't have made it into the log file. To find the problem one would
> need to rebuild GPS with debug on. Personally I find there are just too
> many dependencies, and I don't use GPS enough to go to the trouble.

A few years ago I tried to build it from source following a guide from someone in this group. I got half through before I stumbled on a problem I couldn't solve. The guide is still available but  I doubt that it would work this time.

I am used to GPS and until now I didn't have any crippling problem. Don't think that I would switch to emacs or Eclipse.

For the moment GPS behaves and I don't see a reason for opening a second building site.

I will send the logs to Adacore to see what they say. Would actually be their job to figure out why their program doesn't work.

Quite amazed how much Python is used in GPS. Apart laziness, is there an other reason? 

Thanks

Laurent