OS X/Intel Mac Update (Success!)

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:44:42PM -0400, Kevin Foss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Inspired by some comments on the darwinports list about bugs in  
> libgnomecanvas and Intel Macs, I tried recompiling libgnomecanvas and  
> can now successfully open registers and enter transactions in GnuCash  
> on my Dual Core iMac.
> 
> The darwinports email is here: http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/ 
> gnome-darwinports/2006-July/000823.html
> 
> The 'fix' is to recompile libgnomecanvas at optimization level - 
> O1.    I adjusted fink's .info file for libgnomecanvas2 accordingly,  
> rebuilt and installed the debs, and installed gnucash 2.0.1 from the  
> tarball using the wiki instructions for OS X.
> 
> Seems to work fine -- registers, reports, etc., and I'm impressed  
> with the speed on this machine.
> 
> It is still a bit of a work around and it's unclear to me if this is  
> a gcc bug (as suggested in the email referenced above) or what... but  
> it works!
> 

Nice work, Kevin, and thanks for reporting!

-chris