Re: [Update REQ 5239]: Install Problems

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> 
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 14:54:04 -0800
> From: johnson at mercury.ee.ucla.edu (Michael Johnson)
> Message-Id: <9502092254.AA12014 at mercury.ee.ucla.edu>
> To: software@geom
> Subject: Install Problems
> 
> 
> I downloaded (ftp, binary), uncompressed (compress -v geomview-rs6000....),
> and tar'ed (tar -xvf geomview....tar) but cannot get geomview to run.
> when I am in the Geomview directory created by tar and I type "geomview" I get
> 
> Could not load program ./bin/x11/gvx 
> Symbol _XmStrings in sh is undefined
> Error was: Exec format error
> 
> I checked in ../Geomview/bin/x11 and gvx is actually there. ../Geomview/bin/x11
> looks like:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 johnson  staff        512 Feb  9 14:22 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   3 johnson  staff        512 Feb  9 14:21 ../
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff     310383 Dec 14 16:45 anytooff*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff     317683 Dec 14 16:45 anytoucd*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff     313160 Dec 14 16:44 bdy*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff     336379 Dec 14 16:44 clip*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff        734 Mar  9 1992  geomstuff*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff       2576 Dec 14 17:01 geomview*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff     941216 Dec 14 17:01 gvx*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff      15900 Dec 14 16:44 math2oogl*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff       1024 Aug 31 1992  medit2gv*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff     304383 Dec 14 16:45 offconsol*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff     404248 Dec 14 16:45 oogl2rib*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff      27610 Dec 14 16:45 polymerge*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff       6574 Dec 14 17:02 togeomview*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnson  staff     307871 Dec 14 16:45 ucdtooff*
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Mike Johnson
> 
> P.S. disregard my earlier message indicating I was unable to ftp
> the file.  thank you.
> 
> 
> 


Hi Mike,

  The problem might be that you have a slightly older version of AIX
than the version, Geomview was compiled for. You could either try
upgrading to a more recent version of AIX or try compiling Geomview
from the source code. I can't guarantee that either of these will
fix the problem but it's worth a try. The source code for Geomview
is available from:

ftp.geom.umn.edu in /pub/software/geomview/geomview-src.tar.Z

Hope this helps,

Daeron Meyer
daeron at geom.umn.edu