Thomas, Sorry, I did not mean you do not talk or report the problems and/or observations I am not intrested in. All of us go through a learning cruve when we want to use a new tool.
I mean that please report crashes and coredumps or something unsual... the big patch I applied to 4.0.10 sources yesterday, seems to have stablized the binaries a lot for me on SGI, Linux and Windows. But I want to know how others are doing and how the Linux binaries behave in other setups. This will help Pete and Greg to decide either to apply Patches from RedHat or not. Thanks Suhaib > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas > A. Gardiner > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 1:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [opendx-general] New Binaries for Linux with RedHat Patch > > > Suhaib, > > Sorry if the points I brought up were not what you were most interested > in. As I am new to DX, all I can currently do is to go through samples > and playing with the various options. Of the many samples I tinkered with > I ran into no core dumps, seg faults, or even warnings, other than the gif > issue. I'm aware that you applied the patch and the many warnings it > originally gave, but it appears as if everything is happily coexisting. > > I'm hoping to switch over from using IDL to using Data Explorer for > visualization but, as with most things, this takes time. So, it is quite > likely that in the future I will be able to offer more help. > > Tom > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: > > >Thomas, > > > >I assume you are giving feed back on RPM for DX0-4.0.10 Release 2 for RH > >6.1, uploaded yesterday. > > > >The ImageMagick issue is not a bug really. That is the way it coded. I > >suggested a while ago > >the gif code can be reactivated by using OpenSource libGD. > > > >I would be more interested in kowing any crashes, coredumps or unsual VPE > >behavior because the binaries > >were compiled using huge patch from RedHat plus a few additions from me. > > > >Suhaib > > > >> "Thomas A. Gardiner" wrote: > >> > >> > Suhaib, > >> > > >> > I downloaded and installed the new binaries on my RH6.1 > machine at home. > >> > I played aroud a little going through the samples, but ran into > >> a strange > >> > error. I seem to remember some discussion of gif patent > issues and the > >> > gif code being removed from imagemagick binaries. The error I get is > >> > > >> > ERROR: ReadImage: Operation not implemented: gif format has > been removed > >> > for legal reasons > >> > > >> > when trying to run the TextureMapOpenGL.net sample network. I can > >> > understand patent issues with writing gif files, but is there > >> also issues > >> > when writing code to read gif files? For the record I have > >> installed the > >> > following ImageMagick libraries: > >> > > >> > ImageMagick-5.1.1-1.i386.rpm > >> > ImageMagick-Magick++-5.1.1-1.i386.rpm > >> > ImageMagick-devel-5.1.1-1.i386.rpm > >> > ImageMagick-perl-5.1.1-1.i386.rpm > >> > > >> > which I just downloaded from > >> > > >> > http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ > >> > > >> > While I'm at it... does anyone happen to know if there is a > >> way to change > >> > the font size? I seem to remember some discussion about this > >> and whether > >> > it was due to lesstif, but can't remember the conclusion. > Again for the > >> > record I'm using > >> > > >> > lesstif-0.89.9-1.i386.rpm > >> > > >> > which I downloaded directly from the lesstif site. > >> > > >> > Tom > >> > > >> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: > >> > > >> > > > >> > >David, > >> > >i uploaded the new RPM to your FTP server. > >> > >opendx-4.0.10-2.i386.rpm. > >> > > > >> > >The RPM also has precompiled dxsampels in it therefore size a > >> it big, but no > >> > >docs and help pages. > >> > >Source code is from March 14 CVS plus patches from RedHat. > >> > > > >> > >You may consider redistributing in addition to rpm already on > >> the opendx.org > >> > >site. > >> > >I would be interested in feed back. Binaries seems to be very > >> stable in my > >> > >hands. > >> > > > >> > >I bump the release number to 2 thus > >> > > > >> > >rpm -vUh opendx-4.0.10-2.i386.rpm should work for users who > >> have previous > >> > >versions of > >> > >RPMS installed. > >> > > > >> > >regards > >> > >Suhaib > >> > > > >> > > > > > >
