Re: [Update REQ 5273]: sun4 binary problems

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> 
> Message-Id: <199503012137.XAA00453 at pangea.ee.up.ac.za>
> To: software@geom
> Cc: rudolph at pangea.ee.up.ac.za
> Subject: sun4 binary problems
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 23:37:13 +0200
> From: Rudolph Pienaar <rudolph at pangea.ee.up.ac.za>
> 
> 
> Dear Geometry Center -
> 
> More and more people are expressing an interest in using 'geomview' here at 
> the University of Pretoria Electronic Engineering - unfortunately I can't seem 
> to get the sun4 binaries working (current development is done on Linux 486's).
> 
> Specifically, having untarred the binary on our Sun Sparc Server 1000, and 
> 'telnet'ting in from my 486 'pangea', I get an error message:
> 
> Error: Can't open display: pangea:0.0
> 
> Although my first reaction was incorrect authority settings or ill-defined 
> display variables, this didn't seem to be the case: all other x-based or 
> openwin applications worked fine.
> 
> Using the geomview-1.5.0-sun4-patch1.tar simply changed the error message to:
> 
> Error: Can't Open display
> 
> Telnet from other Linux machines or other X-terminals (using as window 
> managers: fvwm, ctwm, olvwm) doesn't help - all give the same error message.
> 
> Our Sun runs: SunOS 5.3 Generic_101318 sun4d sparc. 
> 
> Any help, comments or suggestions will be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rudolph Pienaar
> 
> 
> 
> 


Hello Rudolph,

  The problem you're experiencing is that the sun4 Geomview binary is unable
to absorb the DISPLAY variable from the SunOS 5.3 environment. This is a known
problem with only one real workaround. You will have to compile a Solaris
version of Geomview from the source distribution. This requires that you
have the Motif and X11 libraries. Will this be a problem? We don't yet
have solaris here which is why we don't distribute a solaris binary version
yet. However, I've compiled it before on solaris boxes at other locations
and it works.


Daeron Meyer
daeron at geom.umn.edu