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[McIDAS #HCS-801574]: McIDAS on Keable's Cyclone machine...

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  • Subject: [McIDAS #HCS-801574]: McIDAS on Keable's Cyclone machine...
  • Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:34:23 -0700
Hi Jim,

After receiving your note about the 'mcidas' account being locked out due to 
too many
incorrect passwords being tried, I was able to logon to the DU AIX machine this 
morning.

Upon noticing that the setup of .cshrc did not follow the recommendations 
listed in
the Preparing the McIDAS Account section of the Unidata McIDAS-X Users Guide:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/current/users_guide/PreparingthemcidasAccount.html

I made some small changes:

<as 'mcidas'>
cd ~mcidas
mv .cshrc cshrc.old
-- create a new .cshrc file with the contents recommended in the page listed 
above

I then proceeded to try and build McIDAS from scratch:

-- logoff and then log back on to force use of the newly created .cshrc file
cd ~mcidas/mcidas2007/src
make clobber
make all

I believe that I got significantly further this time, but still not to the end.
Here is the error message seen at the end of ~mcidas/mcidas2007/src/makelog:

rm -f mci.o
cc -c -O -I. -I../netcdf/libsrc -I../hdf/hdf/src -I../hdf/mfhdf/libsrc 
-I../jpeg -I../libpng
-I../zlib -I../tiff/libtiff -I../libgeotiff -I../jasper/src/libjasper/include 
-I../g2clib mci.c
"mci.h", line 31.10: 1506-296 (S) #include file <X11/extensions/XShm.h> not 
found.
"mci.h", line 108.3: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
"mci.c", line 422.24: 1506-068 (W) Operation between types "char*" and "const 
char*" is not allowed.
compile mci.c:                  FAILED

I believe that the real problem is that the include file XShm.h does not exist 
on your
machine.  For contrast, it does on our AIX 5.1 box:

/home/mcidas/mcidas2007/src% ls -alt /usr/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin            4512 Apr 05 2001  
/usr/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h

I interpret this to indicate that your machine does not have a full X 
development
environment installed.  As soon as the needed extensions are installed (the MIT 
shared memory
extension), the build should continue at least until the next hiccup.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: HCS-801574
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open