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

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

Hi All,

So I followed Cyrus instructions and sure enough everything compiled  
fine.

I use the virtual linac to test the components which I normally need  
and both the alh and MEDM work fine (well, MEDM had some strange  
buttons). StripTool works fine but Probe is a no go, it launches but  
the interface has been rendered completely useless. Hopefully these  
graphical issues will be resolved by having the latest XQuartz  
installed.

Thanks for all the help!
Bertrand

On Dec 21, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Bertrand H.J. Biritz wrote:

> 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 doesn't think anything is out of date, so I think if you are using  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