Re: [ccp4bb] Coot on an SGI

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Strickler
As someone stuck maintaining an SGI for a user who resolutely refuses to
abandon Showcase or Ribbons for IRIX, I sympathize with those cases
where one simply has to get an old computer system to work.

Anyway, we don't have the relevant library file in our freeware
directories either.  However, the last version of UCSF Chimera to
support IRIX, version 1.3, supplies libgcc_s.so.1.  We are using a
symbolic link libgcc_s.so -- libgcc_s.so.1 to run Coot 0.3.3 (not Coot
0.0.33, which runs only on Babbage analytical engines).  Chimera 1.3 is
still available from the UCSF Chimera download page:

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html

as long as you are able to agree to their non-commercial software
license agreement.

Regards,

-- 
Michael Strickler, Ph.D.
Research Specialist
Richards Center for Structural Biology
Yale University
260 Whitney Ave, 355C JWG
PO Box 208114
New Haven, CT 06520-8114


Re: [ccp4bb] Coot on an SGI

2012-01-27 Thread Clayton, Gina
I second Michael's situation.  I am stuck with getting the old SGI system to 
work in this  case - . So many thanks for the info Michael I will let you know 
if that works out. 

Hi Bill I have not seen the Zalman for sale at the price you give of $270. I 
looked around a while ago for a good price but I think the cost was around 
$500. 

Best
Gina

On Jan 27, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Michael Strickler wrote:

 As someone stuck maintaining an SGI for a user who resolutely refuses to
 abandon Showcase or Ribbons for IRIX, I sympathize with those cases
 where one simply has to get an old computer system to work.
 
 Anyway, we don't have the relevant library file in our freeware
 directories either.  However, the last version of UCSF Chimera to
 support IRIX, version 1.3, supplies libgcc_s.so.1.  We are using a
 symbolic link libgcc_s.so -- libgcc_s.so.1 to run Coot 0.3.3 (not Coot
 0.0.33, which runs only on Babbage analytical engines).  Chimera 1.3 is
 still available from the UCSF Chimera download page:
 
 http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html
 
 as long as you are able to agree to their non-commercial software
 license agreement.
 
 Regards,
 
 -- 
 Michael Strickler, Ph.D.
 Research Specialist
 Richards Center for Structural Biology
 Yale University
 260 Whitney Ave, 355C JWG
 PO Box 208114
 New Haven, CT 06520-8114


Dear Gina:

I think Coot 0.0.33 originated sometime early in the Nixon administration, and 
I finally parted with my SGIs a few years ago, so am not in a good position to 
advise.  I seem vaguely to remember some non-canonical naming of the files.  
What happens if you make a symbolic link from the one you have to the one that 
is required?

As I recall, coot on an SGI (at least on my R1, which I think has a 
processor almost as fast as that in my generation A iPod touch) was impossibly 
slow.  By contrast, I can run the very latest svn revision of coot in stereo on 
a $270 Zalman monitor attached to a $600 mac mini.

I'm sorry this doesn't answer your question, but I think an ancient version of 
coot on an ancient computer will just be a world of hurt.

-- Bill

William G. Scott
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
228 Sinsheimer Laboratories
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California 95064
USA
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[ccp4bb] Coot on an SGI

2012-01-26 Thread Clayton, Gina
Hi there

we are trying to install Coot onto one of our old SGIs and so we installed Coot 
0.0.33 (IRIX). However when starting Coot,  such as in the Coot (install) 
directory,  we get an error message stating thatlib libgcc_s.so is required 
but can not be found. We have the sgi freeware gcc_lib installed (the link on 
the Coot page to sgi.freeware, is dead ) but can only find libgcc_a in our 
gcc_lib. 

Can someone tell us how we can get hold of the right library?

Thanks so much for any help
Gina 


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Re: [ccp4bb] Coot on an SGI

2012-01-26 Thread William G. Scott
Dear Gina:

I think Coot 0.0.33 originated sometime early in the Nixon administration, and 
I finally parted with my SGIs a few years ago, so am not in a good position to 
advise.  I seem vaguely to remember some non-canonical naming of the files.  
What happens if you make a symbolic link from the one you have to the one that 
is required?

As I recall, coot on an SGI (at least on my R1, which I think has a 
processor almost as fast as that in my generation A iPod touch) was impossibly 
slow.  By contrast, I can run the very latest svn revision of coot in stereo on 
a $270 Zalman monitor attached to a $600 mac mini.

I'm sorry this doesn't answer your question, but I think an ancient version of 
coot on an ancient computer will just be a world of hurt.

-- Bill

William G. Scott
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
228 Sinsheimer Laboratories
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California 95064
USA
 

On Jan 26, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Clayton, Gina wrote:

 Hi there
 
 we are trying to install Coot onto one of our old SGIs and so we installed 
 Coot 0.0.33 (IRIX). However when starting Coot,  such as in the Coot 
 (install) directory,  we get an error message stating thatlib libgcc_s.so is 
 required but can not be found. We have the sgi freeware gcc_lib installed 
 (the link on the Coot page to sgi.freeware, is dead ) but can only find 
 libgcc_a in our gcc_lib. 
 
 Can someone tell us how we can get hold of the right library?
 
 Thanks so much for any help
 Gina 
 
 
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