Re: [Update REQ 5299]: Pb compiling Geomview 1.5

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> From: abb2-08 at F18.lab.luth.se
> Message-Id: <199503131739.AA12244 at F18.lab.luth.se>
> Subject: Pb compiling Geomview 1.5
> To: software@geom
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 95 18:39:58 "MET
> 
> Hi, trying to compile Geomview/OOGL Release 1.5 for your source package on
> a HP 715/33, I get the following :
> ----------------------
> (.......)
> lmg -lcamera -lwindow  -lshade -loogl -l3d -lcolor -loogl -lm
> /bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
>    __builtin_va_start (code)
> collect: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
> ------------------------
> Huh ?
> Could you be of any help ?
> 
> uname -a :
> HP-UX F18 A.09.01 A 9000/715 2000040711 two-user license
> 
> gcc -v :
> Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/hp9k715-hpux/2.4.5/specs
> gcc version 2.4.5 <---- didn't notice that, I might have to upgrade.
> 
> and as far as I know it is running X11R5 under Motif1.2 .
> 
> I am deeply interested in you package as I am currently working on a FEM package
> and now turning to the visualization side.
> 
> Also, I would like to point out that the HP binary version I downloaded from 
> your WEB page didn't want to start either. I don't have any record of the 
> session though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Francois Gaude
> PhD student, material engineering
> Lulea University
> Sweden.
> 
> 
> 

Hello Francois,

  It might be that your compiler is a little out of date. I think we compiled
the version here with gcc 2.5.8. As for the binary version you downloaded
not working, we discovered a problem with certain HP's X servers. Some X
servers provide two different 8 bit pseudocolor visuals. One of these is the
default for the screen and the other one is not. Geomview chooses one of these
visuals for Camera windows but it is the wrong one. The next version of
Geomview should fix this problem once and for all. In the meantime, you could
download the binary distribution again, but replace your gvx binary with
the file /priv/daeron/bin/gvx.hp.Z on our ftp site (ftp.geom.umn.edu). You'd
need to download this file, uncompress it, and move it to:

Geomview/bin/x11/gvx

in the binary distribution.

Hope this helps,

Daeron Meyer
daeron at geom.umn.edu