Situation report: I compiled the latest CVS version of DX on an Opteron running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (United Linux v. 1.0). After updating LIBTOOL, AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKER; I got an easy compilation. It looks like we have not seen the end of the "SOCKET bufsize" annoyance. The numbers in the message are 262144 and 262142. Perhaps a check for a trivial difference is in order? (yuck)
More significantly, I stumbled into a problem with the SCALAR interactor module. When I tried to set its attributes, MIN and MAX were set to 2.7e-312 and INC to 3.95e-323. Attempts to change any of those values produced an error message along the lines of "value is greater than maximum". I did not do anything approaching an exhaustive test but the other tests that I made on this 64 bit executable worked just fine. I also have two Xeon machines available, one running Red Hat 8.0, the other RH 9.0. Neither exhibited the SCALAR problem and only the RH 9.0 machine had the SOCKET warning. -Ned Piburn
