problem with parsing IDL_STARTUP on MacOS 10.13.6 (command line startup)

[Former user]

setup: MacOS 10.13.6, XQuartz 2.7.11, csh, IDL_STARTUP defined in .cshrc using setenv

On startup of fl64_cmd or fl64_gui from xterm, a segmentation fault occurs:

% fl Fawlty Language 0.79.45 (macosx amd64 m64) Copyright (c) 2000-2018, Lajos Foldy ... Type 'help, /lib' for system routines info.

% Error: no such file or directory: at :2 Segmentation fault

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(see attached report on fl64_gui for more details)

The identical set-up was working fine with previous version of fl (.40 to .44). Commenting out all entries in the idlstartup file did not solve the issue, thus this might be a parsing error?

[Lajos Foldy]

0.79.45 has a regression in reading env. variables (a slash is appended, which was meant for IDL_TMPDIR only). Use 0.79.44 until the next snapshot. The crash is weird, most probably an error in error handling.

Thanks for the report.

[Lajos Foldy]

Closed.