RE: New package for testing: OpenDX

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Nicholas,

Believe it or not, I have no idea how to write a profile.d... in fact, I've
never even heard of one until you just mentioned it.  Perhaps you could
write one to get me started?

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Nicholas Wourms
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: Harold L Hunt; Billinghurst@msu.edu, David (CRTS); cygx
> Subject: RE: New package for testing: OpenDX
>
>
> Harold,
>
> I've been playing with this one too.  First, the INSTALL document in
> /usr/X11R6/doc/dx-4.1.3 is a 0-byte file.  I'm also wondering if you
> shouldn't make a /etc/profile.d to setup the necessary environmental
> variables?
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
> --- Harold L Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > Actually I was hoping that Suhaib would see this and tell me what to
> > fix.  I
> > did at one point get an OpenDX window to appear, but I don't have any
> > experience with DX to tell if this was the expected window, etc.  It was
> > my
> > understanding that OpenDX just has Cygwin support built-in now... but
> > you may
> > be right that there are platform config files that are missing.
> >
> > Let me know if you find more information about what to do to the
> > package.
> >
> > I'll cc this to Suhaib's last known address to see if he has any
> > comments.
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com> said:
> >
> > > Harold,
> > >
> > > I have grabbed this and installed it.  Haven't got it
> > > to work yet.
> > >
> > > 1. The 4.2.0 source was released a couple of days ago ;->
> > > 2. Need to use /bin/tcsh rather than /bin/csh in
> > >    /usr/X11R6/dx/bin/dx
> > > 3. The dx script gives up with message "unknown machine type"
> > >    It seems to be missing platform specific stuff for cygwin
> > > 4. I recall a working cygwin binaries from Suhaib Siddiqi
> > >    some time ago - late 2000? - so there must be patches
> > >    around.  I will see if I still have it on a CD somewhere.
> > >
> > > 	David
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2002 2:28
> > > To: cygx
> > > Subject: New package for testing: OpenDX
> > >
> > >
> > > I've posted a new package, OpenDX, for testing to the
> > sources.redhat.com
> > > mirror network.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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