Re: [Gretl-devel] 1.9.6 status

Just in case you were wondering: I'm still interested in getting gretl 1.9.6 out as soon as reasonably possible, but I'm concerned about the report I mentioned on the users list about a crash (segfault) on start-up, on OS X 10.7 (Lion). We've had one report of gretl running OK on Lion, but that doesn't set my mind fully at ease. Gretl does a lot at start-up these days, and I'm trying to make sure those actions are bullet-proof. It's possible that the gretl installation is messed up in the case where it's crashing at start-up, but unless the mess-up involves something like linking against an incompatible library version (totally screwed, no hope of recovery) the response should be an error message and a maybe a voluntary shutdown rather than a segmentation fault enforced by the OS. So I'd really like to figure this problem out before releasing.