Re: [Update REQ 5580]: installing geomview

["Mark Phillips" <mbp>]

>  Well, this doesn't work.  When I type geomview, nothing happens.

Dennis,
   This is indeed strange.  Here's something to try:  The script
"geomview" is a shell script that sets some environment variables
and then fires up the actual executable program, which is
called "gvx" and lives in the bin/sgi directory.  

Step 1:
    Try running bin/sgi/gvx directly.  It should complain about
    certain environment variables not being set.  If it doesn't get so
    far as to do this, then let me know.

Step 2:
    If it does, then try setting them by hand, as in

	% setenv GEOMROOT /bla/bla/bla/Geomview
	% setenv GEOMVIEW_LOAD_PATH .:$GEOMROOT/data/geom:$GEOMROOT/data
	% setenv GEOMVIEW_EMODULE_PATH $GEOMROOT/modules/sgi
	% setenv GEOMVIEW_SYSTEM_INITFILE $GEOMROOT/data/.geomview

    where you type the absolute pathname of your "Geomview" directory
    (the one that the distribution unpacks into) instead of
    /bla/bla/bla/Geomview.

Step 3:
    Then try running bin/sgi/gvx again and see what happens.

    If it works, then the problem must be with your copy of the
    "geomview" shell script.  Did you edit it at all?  Send us
    a copy if so.

In any case, let me know what happens,

--Mark