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20051102: McIDAS-X v2005 on FreeBSD 5.4 (cont.)

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  • Subject: 20051102: McIDAS-X v2005 on FreeBSD 5.4 (cont.)
  • Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:57:54 -0700
>From: Brendon Hoch <address@hidden>
>Organization: Plymouth State University
>Keywords: 200510312032.j9VKWr7s003036 McIDAS FreeBSD 5.4

Hi Brendon,

>Thanks for your efforts.

No worries.

>Looks like there might be a problem with mcwish finding Tcl libraries:
>
>%mcidas
>/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libtk8.4.so" not found, required by 
>"mcwish"
>
>%ldd mcwish
>mcwish:
>         libtk8.4.so => not found (0x0)
>         libtcl8.4.so => not found (0x0)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x280f6000)
>         libg2c.so.1 => /usr/lib/libg2c.so.1 (0x281b5000)
>         libm.so.3 => /lib/libm.so.3 (0x281d2000)
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x281ed000)
>
>According to 
>http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/mcidas/msg01716.html 
>   Mcidas should come with it's own libraries for this purpose, correct?

Yes, the McIDAS distribution contains both Tcl and Tk source, and it is
built during the McIDAS build process.

I logged back onto your machine and started nosing around.  I verified
that the Tcl and Tk shared libraries _are_ correctly being installed in
~mcidas/tcl/lib.  The problem is that this location is not correctly
being "burned" into the mcwish executable, and it should be.

After a few minutes, I found a problem in the script used to build the
Tcl/Tk distribution, tclcomp.sh.  This file had an entry that was
specific for FreeBSD 4.x; it did not allow for the possibility of
FreeBSD 5.x.  After changing the file to include support for FreeBSD
5.x; doing 'make distclean' in both ~/mcidas2005/tcl/unix and
~/mcidas2005/tk/unix; running 'rm .built* tclcomp mcwish'; and finally
running make again, I was able to build a version of mcwish that knows
where to look for the Tcl and Tk libraries.

I verified that the rebuilt of mcwish works by starting a McIDAS
MCGUI session displayed back to my machine in Boulder.

Cheers,

Tom
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