Re: Compiling alh, MEDM on Snow Leopard (10.6.2)

["Bertrand H.J. Biritz" <bbiritz@ucla.edu>]

Hi Cyrus,

Interesting, thanks for the report.

Perhaps if I specify the universal flag from the beginning it will work.

I will give it another try once my dad isn't using his new laptop ;)

Bertrand

On Dec 21, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Cyrus Reed wrote:

> I was able to get it to work about a month ago when compiling EPICS  
> for my Snow Leopard install.  I just checked my ports and it doesn't  
> think anything is out of date, so I think if you are using the  
> latest MacPorts (1.8.1) it should work.  I didn't run into any  
> MacPorts build problems - I added the +universal variant to the "/ 
> opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf" file before I built anything,  
> however.  (Well, this isn't strictly true - I built everything with  
> the defaults first, and then when I ran into the same "file not of  
> required architecture" problem you did, uninstalled the MacPorts  
> tree and started over using the universal flag...)  I then built  
> EPICS using the default of 32-bits; so far everything seems to be  
> working OK.  (I use MEDM, ALH, and StripTool mostly - Probe does  
> have some graphics layout issues that I think are related to the  
> version of openmotif (2.3.2) installed by MacPorts.)  I can't say  
> what's wrong with your build, but thought I would throw out a report  
> that it's possible to get it to work...  As a last resort you might  
> try wiping out your MacPorts install and starting that over - some  
> of the things I read about MacPorts suggest this is sometimes  
> necessary if things seem to be broken.
>
> -Cyrus
>
> ----
> Cyrus Reed
> Operations Specialist
> LIGO Hanford Observatory
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Bertrand H.J. Biritz wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Thanks for the info.
> >
> > Poor Janet and in fact all of the EPICS developers who constantly  
> > need to update the code in order to compile properly on all the  
> > various architectures – it certain keeps everyone busy :) It is  
> > much appreciated by all of us who rely on you!
> >
> > In MacPorts I just tried installing openmotif with the "universal"  
> > variant but one of the dependences failed to compile:
> >
> > <snip>
> > Building Xft2
> > Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/ 
> > local/var/macports/build/ 
> > _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> > .macports.org_release_ports_x11_Xft2/work/libXft-2.1.14" && /usr/ 
> > bin/make -j2 all " returned error 2
> > Command output:   "_FcUtf8ToUcs4", referenced from:
> >     _XftDrawStringUtf8 in xftdraw.o
> >     _XftTextExtentsUtf8 in xftextent.o
> >     _XftTextRenderUtf8 in xftrender.o
> > <snip>
> >
> > So, unless I did something incorrect it looks like there is an  
> > impasse for a while.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bertrand
> >
> > On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday 21 December 2009 13:56:09 Eric Norum wrote:
> > > > To build EPICS for 64-bit only, edit
> > >
> > > I don't recommend this if you're wanting to build and run alh or  
> > > StripTool
> > > with the result; AIUI neither of those programs works very well  
> > > (if at all)
> > > when built for 64-bit.  Janet has fixing them on her To Do list,  
> > > but I don't
> > > know how long it's going to take.  MEDM seems to be Ok though.
> > >
> > > I guess that's one of the disadvantages of using the Darwin  
> > > universal 32/64
> > > build configuration, all the code has to work properly on both  
> > > configurations.
> > >
> > > - Andrew
> > > --
> > > The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans -- Harald  
> > > Welte