David, Thank you very much for pointing to the reference! Actually did I not even trust calling myself "developer", therefore I was not looking to carefully into that section. Very nice description covering all that I needed including the notes on the hdf install. Would probably be a nice idea to include some of these information into the INSTALL file in the tarball. Mine was simply "empty". Even a simple link would mean a lot.
> As for why you wouldn't be able to view the image, what color depth > is the X server set at? In the ImageWindow, what Colordepth is > selected? Can you change it? Are you trying to render in hardware or > software? I got XFree 4.1 (xf86-4.1.0-45) on a SuSE 7.3 pro Linux box using Kernel 2.4.17. My graphics board is an ELSA with 8 MB and an Permedia 2 Chip. The XServer is set to a color depth of 16bit. In the OpenDX Frontend 16 bit is also checked. I can't change it in the OpenDX gui. I got two OpenDX installs. One is working just perfect on the local Linux box. The other is on the SunFire 6800 Ultra-Sparc III. (750/900 Mhz). On the local OpenDX install I can either render in software or hardware - both work fine. On the remote OpenDX install I can't render in hardware (The XServer is still on my Linux box). If I try I get the error: ERROR: Image: Display: Operation not implemented: GLX extension not installed 11772: signal 11 caught Abort and another windows shows Connection to server has been broken! Does this give any more hints? The people from the Computational Center saw the same effects - but I don't know of their hardware. Is it possible to get to any conclusion from these information? Raphael On Wednesday 16 January 2002 21:48, you wrote: > If you go to the developer section on OpenDX.org, you will find the > info on compiling or more directly, just go the the following: > http://www.opendx.org/compiling.html. > > Another option with all open source software that uses Autoconf > tools, add the info about libraries and includes to CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, > and LDFLAGS. For example, if you need an include for C in a special > directory, set CFLAGS like: > > setenv CFLAGS -I/path2includeDirectory > > then set your LDFLAGS as > > setenv LDFLAGS -L/path2libDirectory > > and you can have multiple -I and -L arguments. > > As for why you wouldn't be able to view the image, what color depth > is the X server set at? In the ImageWindow, what Colordepth is > selected? Can you change it? Are you trying to render in hardware or > software? > > David > > >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
