Re: [ferret_users] v6.94 on OS X: Does it run on old OS?

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ryo,
That's good to know.  In general an executable built under a given 
operating system will run only on that operating system.  With Mac OSX 
we seem to be lucky, in that a given Ferret build will often run on 
several versions of MAC OSX.   Unfortunately 10.6.8 seems to be too far 
back for the recent build to run there.

-Ansley

On 11/10/2015 9:57 PM, Ryo Furue wrote:
> Mac users,
>
> I've started to use Ferret 6.94 on Mac OS.  It works on my desktop
> machine, which runs OS 10.11.1 (El Capitan), but it doesn't on a
> 10.6.8 (Mountain Lion) Mac server:
>
> $ /usr/local/ferret-6.94/bin/ferret_v6.94
> Illegal instruction
> $
>
> Does somebody have a similar experience?
>
> By the way, I was having the problem which was discussed in this
> mailing list under the heading of
>
>     "Ferret using 100% of CPU on Mac OS X Lion"
>
> on OS X Yosemite (10.10.x) with Ferret 6.82, but this problem doesn't
> occur with Ferret 6.94 on El Capitan.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ryo