Re: [geomview-users] Any problems with 1.8.1

[Franco A. B. <abi...@un...>]

Hermann Pleteit wrote:

> "Franco A. Bignone" wrote:
> >
> > I have been using Geomview for several years, and installing it on
> > AIX machines and Linux, but I got stuck
> > with the last version on a new machine (RedHat7.0).
> >
> > I downloaded the 1.8.0 and 1.8.1 and installed as usual, set the
> >
> > GEOMROOT=/usr/local/Geomview
> >
> > and so on, but when I try to start I get the message that the file
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/geomview: /usr/local/Geomview/bin/linux/gvx: File or
> > directory not found
> >
> > but /usr/local/Geomview/bin/linux/gvx: is there with the right
> > permissions .... any hint ? Any
> > compatibility problem with RedHat 7.0 ?
> >
> I guess you should install the older version of the shared c-library
> (libc5) on your system in addition to libc6 which you are probably using
> now. Once I had the same strange error when installing Maple on my
> system and it could be fixed that way.
>
> Hermann

Thanks for your replies. I fixed it. The silly reason, if I have understood
it correctly, as usual when you
try to fix something you may be slipping some unknown bug somewhere, I was
trying both the
geomview distribution and the *.rpm distribution for RedHat. In this second
case the build up of
geomview is done in /usr/share (as with most programs in RedHat), so
basically I had two gvx,
and apparently this was causing the problem. Once I figured it out,
deinstalling all of it, and using one
of them clean from scratch I got it working again. This has been a problem
several times with RedHat,
you have always to be careful with stuff that goes into /usr/local because
often things are screwed up
by this /usr/share business. Moreover if you use, as I do, two different
Unix (AIX-Linux) the paths are
always different. I could try to see how it goes with SUSE, but I am not
that masochistic. Here is the
story, the normal path for geomview is completely changed:

sh -x  /usr/bin/geomview

+ GEOMROOT=/usr
+ GEOMVIEW_GVX=/usr/libexec/geomview/gvx
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ MACHTYPE=linux
+ suf=
+ : /usr/share/geomview
+ : .:/usr/share/geomview/geom:/usr/share/geomview
+ : /usr/libexec/geomview
+ : /usr/share/geomview/.geomview
+ export GEOMROOT GEOMVIEW_GVX GEOMVIEW_LOAD_PATH GEOMDATA
GEOMVIEW_EMODULE_PATH GEOMVIEW_SYSTEM_INITFILE
+ gvx=/usr/libexec/geomview/gvx
+ gvx_option
+ test
+ gvx_option ''
+ test
+ '[' linux = solaris -a -z '' -a -w /dev/fbs/ffb0 ']'
+ '[' -f /usr/libexec/geomview/gvx ']'
+ GEOMVIEW_GVX=/usr/libexec/geomview/gvx
+ export GEOMVIEW_GVX
+ exec /usr/libexec/geomview/gvx

But it works, as far as I am concerned.

As usual "standards are nice because everybody can have its own"

Tx a lot.

Ciao

Franco

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