Pointless / child segmentation fault

If you have had a problem with pointless in xia2 runs giving "child segmentation fault" errors, you may have hit a problem I have just had reported. This is not the end of the world! This is for recent linux distro's for example Fedora 7.

It turns out that the version of pointless 1.2.16 I included in the xia2 bundle for linux is not the same as the one that Phil now has on his web page - so the fix is pretty straightforward. Download the latest pointless from the MRC in Cambridge:

ftp://ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/pre/pointless-1.2.16.linux

and copy it to

$XIA2_ROOT/binaries/linux_386/pointless-1.2.16

You should then be sorted. It may be worth checking that you have execute permissions, and if not adding them with "chmod a+x pointless-1.2.16" since sometimes ftp removes these...