[AG-TECH] problems building VIC and RAT on AG 2.2.6 source

[Benjamin Khoo]

Hi Douglas

thanks lots for your help

i took your advise and downloaded the package and rebuild from source.
after the build, i noticed that the files that are packaged in the RPM
are the same as what i have already installed

i already have the ZIP files that you mentioned in the /etc/AccessGrid
directory. i unzipped them and found working copies of RAT/VIC in there.
(i must have installed it in one of my many "trying to get AG to work"
times)

do i need to unzip these files and add them into my path? or do i leave
then in the ZIPPED up state?

from what i was told, there used to be a need to run RAT and VIC
separately.. in this case, do i still have to do that?

your help has been really valuable. thank you in advance.


On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 20:07, Douglas Kosovic wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> > i ran into many errors when compiling RAT and VIC.
> > for RAT, some of the build files refer to a "ag-rat" directory which
> > caused build failures of "no file found" i hacked around the ag-media
> > directory and managed to get RAT compiled.
> > 
> > however, now i found a similar problem with VIC. the directories being
> > created doesn't seem to be what the RPM Spec file is looking for. after
> > i hacked the script to get it to start compiling, i get the error below.
> > is anyone able to help?
> 
> The vic and rat RPM spec files are now obsolete with AGTk 2.2. The vic
> and rat applications are now found in the following zip files located in
> /etc/AccessGrid/NodeServices:
>     AudioService.zip
>     VideoConsumerService.zip
>     VideoProducerService.zip
>     VideoService.zip
> Which in turn are part of the AccessGrid RPM.
> 
> > thanks lots in advance
> > 
> > ../tcl-8.0/unix/libtcl8.0.a(tclUnixPipe.o)(.text+0xb3): In function
> > `TclpCreateTempFile':
> > : warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
> > codec/tmndec/libh263.a(tmndec.o)(.text+0x781): In function `getval':
> > /disks/space0/turam/build/BUILD/ag-media/vic/codec/tmndec/tmndec.c:657:
> > undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> >From memory, with AccessGrid-2.2.src.tar.gz, the
> ag-media/vic/codec/tmndec directory was contaminated with Redhat 7.3
> object files that weren't deleted before being packaged up. Whatever, it
> definitely isn't a problem when built from CVS.
> 
> If you want to build the AccessGrid RPM on Fedora, you can download and
> install gpt-3.0.1-1.noarch.rpm, globus-accessgrid-2.4-2.i386.rpm and
> wxPythonGTK-py2.3-2.5.1.5-1.i386.rpm from:
> 
>    http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC2/unstable/RPMS/
> 
> Download AccessGrid-2.2-Snapshot_20040723.src.tar.bz2 from:
>    http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC2/unstable/src/
> 
> Then issue something like the following:
> mkdir -p /sandbox/agtk/packages/
> cd /sandbox/agtk/packages/
> bunzip -dc ~/AccessGrid-2.2-Snapshot_20040723.src.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
> export AGBUILDROOT=/sandbox/agtk/packages
> cd AccessGrid/packaging/
> ./BuildSnapshot.py --no-checkout
> 
> If it builds to completion, you should find an AccessGrid RPM and a
> globus-accessgrid RPM in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Doug
> 
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