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19990814: mcidas 7.6 install problems

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  • Subject: 19990814: mcidas 7.6 install problems
  • Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:17:45 -0600
>Organization: SMSU
>Keywords: 199908122231.QAA22964 McIDAS-X,-XCD 7.60

Bill,

re: 7.6 tests were actually using some if not all of 7.402
>Yeah...this has been interesting...depending on .kshrc, .mcenv, some
>system-wide .kshrc and .profile files that I either re-name or allow
>to exist when I initiate mcidas, I can get all sorts of bizarre results
>because of mix-and-match paths....even today I get the small initiation
>window with 'Mcidas 7.402' in it, and I've done my best to erase every
>old 7.402 file....There's no telling what was mix and match in my 
>initial testing, since numerous times we came up '7.402', and then
>finally I got it to come up '7.60'  So I believe we were screwed up
>from the get-go, and my initial message about graphics is a red-herring.

We'll worry about the testing after we get mcimage going.

The output of the mcimage link from your ~mcidas/mcidas7.6/src/makelog
shows what we expected: a library search is failing:

>OK...here's the errors from makelog
>
>compile mci_nvpp.for:           done
>./mccomp -O -s -o mcimage mci.o mci_brie.o mci_buff.o mci_cmap.o 
>mci_comb.o mc
>i_cpfl.o mci_curs.o mci_evnt.o mci_frfl.o mci_glbl.o mci_rsrc.o 
>mci_updt.o mci
>_visl.o mci_nvpp.o -L. -lmcidas -lXext -lX11
>mcfc -s -O -o mcimage mci.o mci_brie.o mci_buff.o mci_cmap.o mci_comb.o 
>mci_cp
>fl.o mci_curs.o mci_evnt.o mci_frfl.o mci_glbl.o mci_rsrc.o mci_updt.o 
>mci_vis
>l.o mci_nvpp.o -L. -lmcidas -lXext -lX11 -Wl,-bbigtoc -lm
>collect2: ld returned 8 exit status
>ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XShmCreateImage
>ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XShmAttach
>ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XShmDetach
>ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XShmQueryVersion
>ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XShmPutImage
>ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more 
>information.
>link    mcimage:                done
>
>OOPS.

This appears to be related to X and shared memory.  I did not have time
on Saturday to look on my AIX 4.3 system to see which library was
not being searched, and I will not be able to do so today until about
3 pm our time (I am at home working on my cedar shake roof).  I searched
the SSEC web pages on installing 7.6 to see if there was something I
missed in extra configuration steps for AIX (e.g. special directories
needed for your LPATH), but I did not see anything obvious.  I will
do a complete search of the AIX libraries this afternoon to see what
library the XShm... libraries are contained in.

Tom