Re: [Closed REQ 5289]: trouble w/ rs6000 version

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> 
> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 11:22:20 -0700
> From: jeff at osiris.usi.utah.edu (Jeff Weiss)
> Message-Id: <9503081822.AA23067 at osiris.usi.utah.edu>
> To: software@geom
> Subject: trouble w/ rs6000 version
> 
> Hi There,
> 
> I am having some difficulty getting the rs6000 version of
> geomview to run:
> 
> osiris:~/Geomview >!g
> geomview
> Could not load program ./bin/x11/gvx
> Symbol _XmStrings in sh is undefined
> Error was: Exec format error
> 
> Is this an OS incompatibility?  Here is our system info:
> 
> 	osiris:~ >uname -a
> 	AIX osiris 2 3 000030951C00
> 
> 	IBM AIX Version 3 for RISC System/6000
> 
> 	rs6000/550 64 MB real memory
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> 
> Jeff Weiss
> Orthopedic Biomechanics Institute, Bioengineering Dept, U. Utah, and
> Applied Mechanics Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> phone:  801-269-4035
> fax:    801-269-4015
> jeff at osiris.usi.utah.edu
> 
> "After the doctor's departure Koznyshev expressed the wish to go
> to the river with his fishing rod.  He was fond of angling and
> was apparently proud of being fond of such a stupid occupation."
> 
> 				- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
> 
> 
> 


Yes, an OS incompatibility might be the problem, actually perhaps more like
a shared library incompatibility. I think Geomview was compiled under a
slightly older version of AIX than what you are running. The problem
you are experiencing is likely caused by a change in the Motif libraries.
(XmString is a data type in Motif). So, you will probably need to grab the
source code and recompile it. That's geomview-src.tar.Z, available in the
same place you got the rs6000 distribution.

Sorry for any inconvenience,

Daeron Meyer
daeron at geom.umn.edu