Re: Compiling MEDM and Striptool on Ubuntu 1204

[Keith Thorne <kthorne@ligo-la.caltech.edu>]

Dear Ivan
	There is a much easier way, appropriate way to do this

  In extensions/configure/os modify the appropriate CONFIG_SITE file
 ( in your case, CONFIG_SITE.linux-x86.linux-x86 )

# Ubuntu 12 on 32-bit has X11 at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu, Motif at /usr/lib
X11_LIB=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
X11_INC=/usr/include/X11
MOTIF_LIB=/usr/lib
MOTIF_INC=/usr/include

recent versions of MEDM (3.1.7) and StripTool (2.5.15.0) conform to used these symbols.

I had to modify an older Probe (1.7.0) Makefile to put Xp_DIR in X11-LIB, but I believe 
a recent correction resolves that as well.

	Keith Thorne

On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Kohler <ivan@tlabs.ac.za> wrote:

> Hi,
> Just in case anyone is having problems compiling MEDM on Ubuntu1204, here are some tips:
> MEDM compile expects some library files in /usr/lib
> Ubuntu1204 puts these files in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
> so one needs the following symbolic links in /usr/lib, MEDM then compiles:
>  ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXm.a /usr/lib/libXm.a
>  ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXt.a /usr/lib/libXt.a
>  ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXp.a /usr/lib/libXp.a
>  ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.a /usr/lib/libXmu.a
>  ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.a /usr/lib/libX11.a
>  ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.a /usr/lib/libXext.a
>  ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXm.so /usr/lib/libXm.so
> 
> Remember to install the following package for the larger fonts used by MEDM to work on Ubuntu1204:
>  apt-get install xfonts-100dpi
> 
> For StripTool you also need:
>  ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXpm.a /usr/lib/libXpm.a
> 
> Cheers,
> Ivan Kohler
> iThemba LABS