Comment 38 for bug 697039

Hi TOBi,

I appreciate the effort you are making to compile Hugin and I am sorry that 2010.4+ remains unusable for you for the time being. Is there anything I can do to help you identifying the problem on OSX 10.5?

Do you have a traceback of the crash at startup? Did you follow the instructions linked by Carl? Or have you tried http://wiki.panotools.org/Build_a_MacOSX_Universal_Hugin_bundle_with_Xcode ?

I would recommend going with the Universal Hugin bundle linked above (and when your compiled version works it can be distributed to other 10.5 users).

I understand your reluctance to upgrade system for a single app. It's a can of worm. I have similar situations quite regularly with Kubuntu. New O/S releases every six months and most apps don't provide backports for older O/S versions. Although upgrading Free software does not cost money, it does cost time and potentially lost productivity that are a number of magnitude more valuable than the cost of an O/S license.