[Xastir] Mac (OSX) Error: Unresolved inheritance operation

[Derrick Brashear]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that an "unresolved inheritance operation" is due to a
>> version mismatch of some kind, some component of Xastir is expecting some
>> version of something else (maybe xfig) but it can't find it. What I need is
>> someone much closer to the Unix roots of Mac to help me figure out where to
>> start looking for the problem.
>
> Definitely not xfig:  That link I sent was just a similar kind of
> error to what you're seeing, and they had the error on the xfig
> program.
>
> More than likely you've got some library that is compiled to use the
> OpenMotif stuff which didn't get updated when you switched to
> Lesstif, but it might be hard to find out which one without more
> info.
>
> You can do "ldd xastir", which in my case would be:
>
>    /usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/bin/xastir

otool -L /path/to/xastir
on the Mac.