To me it sounds almost like back when xorg-libXt needed to be linked with a -flat-namespace option if one was going to use openmotif with it. But as I recall, the current version of open motif isn't supposed to need that anymore But it could still be a building or linking issue, something to do with openmotif on macOS rather than xephem, since the latter hasn't changed in a long time.
> On Oct 10, 2018, at 18:36, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > > > On Oct 10, 2018, at 09:55, Kevin Horton wrote: > >> on Mojave, with Xcode 10.0: >> >> $ xephem >> Warning: Fatal Error: >> _XmGetDefaultDisplay cannot be used prior to VendorS.Initialize, returns NULL >> [1] 34379 segmentation fault xephem >> >> Any troubleshooting advice is appreciated. > > Sounds like a bug in the software. Have you reported it to the developer? > > >