RE: Install on SuSE Linux

[Paul E. Johnson]

Is SUSE 5.1 built on glibc?

Some particulars of your installation do not use the newest available
libraries.  The "libtclobjc" is now in version 1.2, called tclobjc.

BLT2.3 works fine. There are various ways to make the dynamic linker
find it.  First step is to make a symlink from libBLT2.3.so to libBLT.so.
Then add the directory that has that file to the list of places the ld
searches. It is not necessary to compile that into /usr. I wouldn't do 
it, simply to keep the system clean.

 In the newest version of the FAQ, I wrote some of this down:
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq/FAQ-2.html.
After that version of the FAQ gets proofread and test driven (possibly
by people on this list) I expect it will be transferred to the SFI web
pages.

Paul Johnson

On 09-Feb-98 Matthew Aylward EG201 G219 SL CKR wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> I have compiled swarm on S.u.S.E Linux 5.1 so I thought it may be useful
> to others to know what had to be tweaked to make it work.
> 
> gcc and objc come with the SuSE distribution and work fine.
> Use the standard tcl and tk versions(7.6/4.2)  provided with suse, not
> the "new"(8.0) or "old"(7.4/4.1)  versions also on the cdrom
> First I compiled libtclobjc-1.1b7 from the swarm site.
> When trying to compile libtclobjc I got an error - "can't find
> tkConfig.sh" so I put sym-link from /usr/X11R6/lib/tkConfig.sh to
> /usr/lib/tkConfig.sh and it  compiled and installed OK
> The BLT libraries are also provided with suse but the version is too old
> so get the BLT2.3 tgz from the swarm needed software page. I ended up
> using ./configure --prefix=/usr because ldconfig couldn't seem to find
> BLT in /usr/local (even though /usr/local/lib was in the
> /etc/ld.so.conf.in file.
> 
> I then had to modify the swarm Makefile.conf using the "Alex's SFI
> GNU/Linux setup" as a starting point, as follows:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> SETUP=matt
> else
> SETUP=$(SWARMSETUP)
> endif
> 
> ......snipped.......
> 
> ifeq ($(SETUP),matt)
># Alex's SFI GNU/Linux setup
> SYS=GNU/Linux
> CC=gcc
> OPTFLAGS=-O3 -g
> TCLVERS=7.6
>#TCLPREFIX=$(P)/swarm/tcl$(TCLVERS)
> TCLPREFIX=/usr
> TCLINC=$(TCLPREFIX)/include
> TCLLIB=$(TCLPREFIX)/lib/tcl$(TCLVERS)
> TKVERS=4.2
>#TKPREFIX=$(P)/swarm/tk$(TKVERS)
> TKPREFIX=/usr
> TKINC=$(TKPREFIX)/include
> TKLIB=$(TKPREFIX)/lib/tk$(TKVERS)
> BLTPREFIX=/usr
> BLTINC=$(BLTPREFIX)/include
> BLTLIB=$(BLTPREFIX)/lib
> XPREFIX=/usr/X11R6
> 
> XINC=$(XPREFIX)/include
> XLIB=$(XPREFIX)/lib
> TCLOBJCPREFIX=$(P)/swarm/tclobjc-new
> TCLOBJCLIB=$(TCLOBJCPREFIX)/lib
> TCLOBJCINC=$(TCLOBJCPREFIX)/include
> 
> ....snipped....
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I believe this was all I had to do, I hope there is nothing I did that I
> have forgotten, if anyone else has trouble on suse feel free to contact
> me.
> 
> All the swarm apps compile nicely now.
> 
> A note to the developers:
> Thanks for all the effort you guys have put in. Swarm is going to be a
> huge boost to my research.
> 
> -- 
> Matt Aylward
> Dept of Geography (GIS)
> email: address@hidden
> Linux Lover and GIS Geek
> ..............LINUX.....................
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Date: 09-Feb-98
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