Hi Ziad,

(pardon if this is reposted, my first reply seemed to have disappeared from the board...)

with your suggested change, the compilation completes with seemingly no error. Afni starts just fine, but when I try to run the FreeSurfer SUMA demo, using the following command:

suma -spec ../SurfData/SUMA/DemoSubj_lh.spec -sv DemoSubj_SurfVol_Alnd_Exp+orig

I get a crash, with the error messages:

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvSurface #1/4(Local Domain Parent), loading ...
-- Error SUMA_Load_Surface_Object_eng (SUMA_Load_Surface_Object.c:1111):
newcode pointer must be null
** Critical SUMA_Load_Surface_Object_eng (SUMA_Load_Surface_Object.c:1277):
0 nodes or 0 facesets.
Proceed I will not.


Fatal Signal 11 (SIGSEGV) received
SUMA_Free_Surface_Object
SUMA_Load_Surface_Object_eng
SUMA_Load_Spec_Surf
SUMA_LoadSpec_eng
SUMA_Engine
suma
Bottom of Debug Stack
** AFNI version = AFNI_2008_07_18_1710 Compile date = Jan 9 2009
** [[Precompiled binary 1: Jan 9 2009]]
** Program Abort **
** If you report this crash to the AFNI message board,
** please copy the error messages EXACTLY, and give
** the command line you used to run the program, and
** any other information needed to repeat the problem.
** You may later be asked to upload data to help debug.

If however I omit the "-sv ..." part of the command, the SUMA interface with a brain surface displays fine and the controls seem to work.

Any suggestions for the next steps?

thanks again for your help and happy new year

giuseppe