[EMBOSS] emboss 2.10 'marscan' now silently fails on Mac OS X 10.4

[Chris Dagdigian]

Hello,

Was wondering if anyone else has recently had trouble with 'marscan'  
in Emboss 2.10 on Apple systems.

I'm trying to track down the root cause for someone who last  
successfully ran marscan on an Apple OS X based system in October 2005.

The October run ran just fine. All runs done this week fail silently  
with zero size output files created and no error messages whatsoever.

The only difference is that Apple software updates have been applied  
to the system.

Today, I built 2.10 from source on OS X 10.4 Tiger Server and was  
able to recreate the silent failure.

I then rebuilt 2.10 on my laptop (OS X Tiger 10.4.4) and also have  
the same silent failure behavior.

At this point I'm wondering if something in one of the recent Apple  
software updates may be the root cause, it really is the only core  
thing that changed since October.

Any hints/suggestions? Can others reproduce?

Regards,
Chris Dagdigian