Thank you David, especially for the superb contributions of you all to OpenDX! I am really greatful for that perfect kind of software. That's why I asked my computational center to put it on their 16*24 SunFire. They didn't even know of OpenDX (DataExplorer)! They were not able to compile the code from source including the hdf routines. That's why I got the initiative to do it myself. I looked at the Website "OpenDX" but am still not able to find these compilation notes you named. I may be unintuitive but I just can't find it on the website and I could not find any hints on the HDF install problem in the Readme or other files in the distribution. The only place was the configure script which I tinkered around with (echo, set -vx :-).
Since I don't have privileges on that machine I will ask the Center to put the libraries and header files in the "right" places. But still the beforehand mentioned method using --with-hdf=/pathtohdf did not work in my case where I got the path /usr/local/hdf and include, lib etc. files in that directory. I would be happy to write some README_DXwithHDF file if I got to a satisfying solution. Anyway - I am glad for the binary package for Solaris Sparc which was contributed by you. They got that running on the machine with the one side effect that the graphical window (output) does not show anything beside the coordinate system and the rotation globe display. Everything else stays black. I got to a similar result compiling from source with a tinkered configure and include/dx_config.h I can save an image into a file (tiff) and view it. The result looks perfect. I looked into a truss output which did not help me. Everything else seems to work fine. I just don't know what to do now. Is there anything I should look for in the output of configure? The ldd command seems to show no missing dynamic libs for dxecec. I am in a dead end and the problem is that my computational center seems to be stuck, too. Do you have any idea where we should look? Even a simple guess, one word could get us to a solution. Appreciating any help and valuing your time! Raphael On Wednesday 16 January 2002 19:45, you wrote: > I think the reason no-one else has seen this problem is that those > that are installing hdf are installing it as described in the > compilation notes on OpenDX.org. libdf.a is in /usr/local/lib and the > include files are in /usr/local/include/hdf > > David
