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Subject: RE: EDM Installation Error
From: "Allison, Stephanie" <[email protected]>
To: Ed Villasenor <[email protected]>, John William Sinclair <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:41:59 -0800 
Hi Ed,

This sounds like something discussed in these tech-talk messages:

http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2008/msg00356.php
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2008/msg00357.php

We had the font init problem when upgrading to RHEL6 and applied the solution from msg00357.

Stephanie Allison

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Ed Villasenor
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:30 PM
> To: John William Sinclair; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: EDM Installation Error
> 
> Dear John,
> 
> I was able to compile edm by changing the const char to char.
> Unfortunately when I try to start EDM, "Font init failed - abort" error
> is displayed. Do you know if this error is related to the remFileOpen.cc
> file that I altered.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed
> 
> --
> Ed Villasenor <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:33:26 -0500
> John William Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Ed,
> >
> > The problem is that some versions of g++ require a cast of the form
> > (const char *)
> > and others require (char *). Try editing the file and changing the
> > offending lines from
> > one of those forms to the other.
> >
> > John Sinclair
> >
> > Ed Villasenor wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I'm currently installing EDM on a CentOS 6 laptop and came accross the
> > > same problem described here:
> > > hxxp://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2010/msg00157.php
> > > and hxxp://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2009/msg01681.php
> > >
> > > Has the solution for this problem been found?
> > >
> > > Additional Info
> > >  - EPICS Base: 3-14-11
> > >  - EDM: 1-11-2i
> > >  - installed
> > > 	epics base
> > > 	medm
> > > 	libpng-1 . 2 . 6rc1-config . tar . gz
> > > 	libungif-4 . 1 . 3 . tar . gz
> > > 	giflib-4 . 1 . 3 . tar . gz
> > > 	zlib-1 . 2 . 5 . tar . gz
> > > 	openmotif-2 . 3 . 3-1 . el4.5.i386.rpm
> > > 	openmotif-devel-2 . 3 . 3-1 . el4.5.i386.rpm
> > >
> > > I have previously installed EDM on a CentOS 5 Workstation without having
> > > this problem.
> > >
> > > Kind Regards,
> > >
> >
>
References:
EDM Installation Error Ed Villasenor
Re: EDM Installation Error Ed Villasenor
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