Re: [geomview-users] How I compiled geomview on Mac OS X

[Lloyd W. <L....@su...>]

Actually, SaVi uses the simpler check

if [ -d /cygdrive ]; then

so I've committed that to CVS instead.

L.

At Wednesday 23/08/2006 21:21 +0100, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>On cygwin, I get:
>
>lwood@lwood-wxp01 ~
>$ uname
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1
>
>lwood@lwood-wxp01 ~
>$ uname -o
>Cygwin
>
>so something unwieldy like:
>if test "`uname | grep CYGWIN`"; then
>   echo "hello Cygwin"
>fi
>
>will work instead. So that is easy to fix.
>
>L.
>
> >BTW, one minor error message I noticed when starting up geomview is
> >the following:
> >
> >uname: illegal option -- o
> >usage: uname [-amnprsv]
> >
> >It turns out that Mac OS X's version of uname doesn't have the "-o"
> >flag, and this gets triggered in the geomview shell script when
> >testing for Cygwin by the following lines:
> >
> >if test "`uname -o`" = Cygwin; then
> >      TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/share/tcl8.4
> >      TK_LIBRARY=/usr/share/tk8.4
> >      export TCL_LIBRARY TK_LIBRARY
> >fi
> >
> >I just commented out these lines to shut it up (since I know I'm not
> >running Cygwin), but there's probably a better way to do this that
> >works cross-platform.
> >
> >Thanks again for all the help!
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Ari Stern