Suhaib, Thanks for all your work on Linux. I just want to confirm that the CVS (mine is Jan 28) source builds under RH6.1 without the interactor problem -- no environment variables needed to be set. I would still like to use your rpms as they seem to have more complete modules built in (e.g. BSpline) than what I get from the CVS files. The comments below about rpms and install locations seem valid to me, too. An additional problem with some of the distributions comes from changing the install locations (/usr/.. or /usr/local/..): it's really easy for someone like me to end up with multiple versions of DX and get really confused as to which version has which problems, etc.
My plan is to try to work through as many of the samples as I can, noting which ones do and don't work -- I get frequent server disconnects with some of them, too. I'll try to compile a list of the results. BTW - I downloaded a copy of your rpm yesterday (2/17) but it seems to be corrupted -- rpm won't query it or install it. It's probably just a bad download -- the phone system at Stanford yesterday was all fouled up -- calls to 415-555-1212 directory assistance went to Phoenix... ;-) Suhaib Siddiqi wrote: > David, > Thanks. i will have patched binary ready sometimes duyring next > week. > > Suhaib > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David > > Thompson > > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:42 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [opendx-dev] RE: problems with OpenDX RPM files > > > > > > Suhaib, > > > > The fix is actually with adding a command line option to > > your compiler for > > Linux. I deduced that trunc did not work right when > > linked with 4.0.10. In > > order to link properly, -D_GNU_SOURCE must be added to > > the compile lines > > to get it to function. I've added the check for this in > > configure so the > > cvs version now does this correctly. > > > > David > > > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, I will incorporate suggestions into RPMS spec files. > > > > > > Regarding bugs of interactor and steppers: I was > > unable to find a > > > fix in DX code... and I am not sure where in the MOTIF > > code I should > > > look. > > > > > > Suhaib > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Behalf Of Douglas N. Arnold > > > > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 1:19 PM > > > > To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi > > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > Subject: problems with OpenDX RPM files > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just installed the opendx RPMs from opendx.org on > > my RedHat 6.1 > > > > machine. Thanks for making RPMs available! However > > I did come > > > > across some problems I wanted to let you know about. > > > > > > > > 1. There still seems to be an interactor problem. Dials > > > > and steppers > > > > don't work. > > > > > > > > 2. There is also a small bug. The rpm installs into > > /usr, but the > > > > script /usr/bin/dx and script in /usr/dx/bin still > > > > specify the prefix > > > > /usr/local. > > > > > > > > 3. Finally, I wanted to mention that your naming > > > > conventions are not > > > > usual for RPMs and cause some problems. You associated > > > > the following > > > > names to the RPMs (in the spec file, I imagine): > > > > > > > > OpenDX > > > > opendx-4.0.10-redhat-6.x-linux-docs > > > > > > > > The second name is surely not right. The version > > number 4.0.10 is > > > > separate from the name. If I ask my system to list > > my installed > > > > rpms (rpm -qa), it now gives the redundant info > > > > "opendx-4.0.10-redhat-6.x-linux-docs-4.0.10-1". > > > > > > > > I would suggest names > > > > > > > > opendx > > > > opendx-docs > > > > > > > > for the two RPMs. Of course the version number would be > > > > 4.0.10 and the > > > > release number 1 (or 2). Then, conventionally, the name > > > > of the rpm > > > > files would be name-version-release.i386.rpm, i.e., > > > > > > > > opendx-4.0.10-1.i386.rpm > > > > opendx-docs-4.0.10-1.i386.rpm > > > > > > > > These names, especially the one associated to the RPM > > in the spec > > > > file, are important, since to query the rpm the user must > > > > supply the > > > > name. E.g., if I want to find out what opendx docs there > > > > are I would > > > > type, under my suggested scheme, > > > > > > > > rpm -ql opendx-docs > > > > > > > > It would be tough for me to remember your long name and type > > > > > > > > rpm -ql opendx-4.0.10-redhat-6.x-linux-docs > > > > > > > > By the way it is possible to put OS information in the > > > > release number, > > > > like 1rh6.1, if you insist, but it is not usually done. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------- > > David L. Thompson e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > University of > > Montana/CS Department > > Missoula, MT 59812 > > Work Phone : > > (406)243-4793
