Re: installing 1.4.1 on SuSE Linux 6.1 (help re objc?)

[Jan Kreft]

Dear Catherine and Matt,

I have Swarm running on SuSE 6.1, using the egcs provided. Recompilation
is not necessary, but it might help with the linker that spews out
warnings about multiple commons and undefined dynamic symbols. I have
chosen to ignore these warnings rather than install a new linker, as
getting on with my work is more important. 

I simply installed everything SuSE had re egcs, gcc, objc. Maybe you
didn't select the objc stuff gobjc in the d1 package. Go through the html
help with the list of all packages and search for objc, then find the
stuff in yast and select it.

Re. other packages, the gdb provided is useless, I overwrote it with the
precompiled version from santafe. Also, SuSE offers to install new and old
Tcl/Tk by default, which is a bad idea as they are installed in the same
directory. So I deinstalled the new version and compiled from source and
installed in /usr/local where I've also put everything else that was
missing. 

If you configure with --enable-shared, you will get those known warnings

ld: type and size of dynamic symbol foo are not defined

which you can safely ignore.

Hope that helps, Jan.

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Catherine Dibble wrote:

> hi Marcus and Matt,
> 
> >also BTW Marcus, you get a grateful acknowledgement in my thesis. The help 
> >you
> >provide on this list has been a huge help to me. Thanks!!!
> 
> I'll add a hearty second to this!  I expect to be adding similar dissertation
> acknowledgements and publications later this year.  :)  You guys walk on 
> water (and at all hours, no less, thanks Marcus).   So, tell us again where 
> to send those  contributions, pizzas, and rave reviews?  ;)  
> 
> Matt, I'm glad to hear this news re GRASS 5.0, as I have a copy sitting
> here waiting for its turn later this summer.
> 
> For other folks, yes, having a stable Swarm installation on another machine
> is an *excellent* idea for critical projects.  I have a very stable RedHat
> 5.2 on
> my main machine.  But unfortunately I am about to leave it behind on the
> wrong coast for six weeks, so I have a very strong incentive to get SuSE 6.1
> to behave on my laptop.  Luckily, I run dual-boot on my laptop.  Much as I
> hate to develop Swarm under Windows, that looks like my fallback for now.
> <eeewww -- worth many struggles with SuSE to avoid!  ;)  >
> 
> Wrt platform religions, I've been a faithful RedHat fan since version 3- 
> something.  But I have to admit I like SuSE so far, except wrt Swarm/objc.
> 
> Matt, your objc directory was included by default under egcs in 6.0?  Or
> did it only appear there after you had recompiled egcs?  There is nothing
> there for objc at all in my 6.1 default installation.
> 
> I have the same paths too, up *to* the objc -- but nothing whatsoever
> wrt objc <sigh>.
> 
> Catherine
> *=============================================*
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>  and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of
>  courage--to move in the opposite direction.   -- Albert Einstein
> 
>  Catherine Dibble                           www.econ.ucsb.edu/~cath
>  Department of Geography                                               UCSB
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