William Scott wrote: > I just found out the hard way that gmp, when compiled on my G5, is > incompatible with my G4 ppc, and it is linked to guile, which is linked > to coot, which has a scheme script called tips-gui.scm that has a random > number generator that fails if this happens, and coot will not start up. > > So if you have encountered this problem, either make an empty > tips-gui.scm file and live without the annoying tips, or else recompile > gmp (a good idea). One of the tips is how to turn off the tips. Add (no-coot-tips) to you ~/.coot file.