[AG-TECH] AccessGrid 2.0 in Slackware 9.0

Ivan R. Judson judson at mcs.anl.gov
Sat Aug 9 08:58:35 CDT 2003


Hey,

As Eric pointed out, using the release tag you can get the official 2.0
release code, without worrying about development destabilization that's
happened since then.

It also looks like the gcc3 patch solves the problem, no? If so, we should
commit that to our cvs.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Stephen Bosch
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:10 PM
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] AccessGrid 2.0 in Slackware 9.0
> 
> 
> Hi, Ivan:
> 
> Thanks for the quick response!
> 
> Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> >>I'm attempting to install the AccessGrid packages in Slackware 9.0.
> >>
> >>First -- I'd like to point out the folly of providing the source
> >>packages in RPM format only. That doesn't count as "source" 
> >>-- that's a 
> >>source RPM. Sources should be in generic tar.gz packages.
> > 
> > 
> > We have that in our list of things to do; however you can 
> always get 
> > the code from cvs as well. That would avoid the RPM issue.
> 
> I'm always nervous about pulling stuff from cvs for obvious 
> reasons, but 
> if people are having success running out of cvs then I don't have a 
> problem with that :)
> 
> I would be happy to make a set of Slackware packages and 
> contribute them 
> to the project; I just need to know if there are any 
> directory structure 
> peculiarities. Ideally I'd like to make one big package that installs 
> all the components.
> 
> Before I do that, though, I'll get a from-source build 
> running properly.
> 
> > It looks to me like the configure script is detecting you have 
> > quickcam support. That would happen if you have 
> > /usr/local/lib/libqcam.a, or /dev/qcam0, or have specifically 
> > specified the directory for the code (which I'm guessing you didn't 
> > do).
> 
> Nope, though I did do the quick and complete install of Slackware, so 
> it's possible Quickcam support is in.
> 
> > Why don't you try reconfiguring using something like 
> --without-qcam to 
> > explicitly disabling this?  Does slackware include the libraries?
> 
> It might -- perhaps the install script just isn't looking in 
> the right 
> place.
> 
> There's no configure script for the vic sources, I noticed. 
> Is that any 
> different in CVS?
> 
> -Stephen-
> 
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