[mythtv-users] mac osx

[jam at tigger.ws]

OT but relevant in a round about way
Craig your post references

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For the last 4-5 weeks, I've been back to plugging away at MythTV 29.x on macOS. Starting with MoisiePants pull request, I got the code to build successfully. So I resurrected my Parallels VM's for testing. Unfortunately, mythfrontend would crash hard at launch each and every time. I thought it might be a bug in the Parallels virtual environment (or just that it gets an odd-size screen). So I borrowed my wife's little-used MacBook Pro (late 2011). After a few small adventures setting up the build environment, it built successfully there too. mythfrontend did not _crash_ on launch--but only the top-left quarter of the screen was being properly displayed.
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Reading between the lines I opine you are running linux on yout mac

    So I resurrected my Parallels VM's for testing

Parallels are anal about the license fine print: They would not let you install a osx VM on non apple hardware

    So I borrowed my wife's little-used MacBook Pro 

implies that your native machine is not OSX. If true then 

Is a parallels VM a good build environment.
If not what is your build environment.
Are gdb or whatever-their-debugger’s-called not enough to exactly pinpoint the error(s)?
What do you do about heat? I find apple’s sleeping unused cores much cooler than linux’s throttling them.

Thanks
James