Re: [Update REQ 6095]: Geomview on Digital Alpha

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> It do seems to compile, I could run "${GEOM}/src/bin/geomview/x11/geomview".

Glad to hear it!

> Can I make a "binary distribution" with two copies of gvx (gvx and gvx.OGL) as 
> yours "geomview-1.6.1-alpha.tar.gz", so I can keep the sources out of the 
> instalation directory. (and how do I do it)

If you "make install" from the top-level directory (or even from the
src/bin/geomview/x11 directory), it'll install gvx as bin/x11/gvx.
We didn't have any very nice way of making two versions there,
bin/x11/gvx and bin/x11/gvx.OGL; I just produced those by compiling geomview
under the two different conditions, and manually copying the binary to either
of those two names.

Note that you can only compile an Open GL version of geomview if you
have an Open GL library, of course.  This might be Mesa,
available from the University of Wisconsin as mentioned in the INSTALL
file, or perhaps you have some other library that you bought with the Alpha.
To switch between plain-X and OpenGL graphics, you'd:

   - Install Mesa (if you need to)
   - edit makefiles/mk.alpha, uncommenting the OpenGL-related lines
	at the bottom of the file, and probably adding a -I directive
	to point to wherever the OpenGL include-files live

   - cd whatever/src/lib/mg/opengl; make
	(The OpenGL "mg" (geomview graphics) library won't have been
	built previously unless -DMGOPENGL is in the MGTYPE setting.)

   - cd whatever/src/bin/geomview/x11
     rm O.x11/gvcamui.o
	(The only geomview file affected by the MGTYPE setting is gvcamui.o)
     make 
     cp gvx ../../../../bin/sgi/gvx.OGL