unlimited stacksize on osx

From: Jared Pierce Whitehead <jaredwh_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:22:03 -0400

I am trying to install ncl on my macbook pro (with osx 10.5, intel dual
processors). When I do, everything runs fine and I am able to run ncl, but
get a segmentation fault when I try to do anything.

Following the instructions on the website I have tried to set the stacksize
to unlimited, but I have recently found that mac osx restricts the hard
limit for the stacksize to 64Mb (which I thought would have been plenty).
Evidently setting the soft limit to unlimited isn't good enough either.
Following is what I get when I try to run the test suggested on the install
website...

Running NCL...
 Copyright (C) 1995-2004 - All Rights Reserved
 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 NCAR Command Language Version 4.2.0.a032
 The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
 See http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ncl/ for more details.
warning:New: Could not coerce missing value parameter into appropriate
type, using default
Segmentation fault

ncl failed.

Just to make sure I set the stacksize to its maximum...

bash-3.2$ ulimit -s
65532
bash-3.2$ ulimit -S
unlimited

Any suggestions would be appreciated...is this really a stacksize problem,
or am I missing something else entirely?

                           -Jared
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