| 01:40.16 | KimK | Hi, I can't install the 7.18.2 .deb in Ubuntu 10.04 due to dependency issues (my libncurses5 is too old, it's current). Would it be a reasonable project to compile BLR-CAD from source on my machine, or would I hit the same libncuses5 wall anyway? |
| 01:40.52 | KimK | s/libncuses5/libncurses5/ |
| 01:41.38 | KimK | s/BLR-CAD/BRL-CAD/ |
| 01:42.26 | KimK | is sure glad he caught those mispellings before that went out, whew! |
| 02:19.33 | starseeker | might be able to get his hands on a neo1973 phone... |
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| 04:23.18 | dli_ | KimK, still couldn't get 7.18.2? |
| 05:35.40 | KimK | dli_: Hi, I have the .deb of course, but gDebi says my libncurses5 is too old, I have 5.7+2009xxxx and it wants 5.7+2010xxxx or something. So I thought I might be able to persuade a dev to freshen the Ubuntu 10.04 libncurses5, but I haven't managed that yet either. I think even the Debian libncurses5 is too old. So then I thought, maybe compile from source on my machine? Anyway, no, BRL-CAD still not installed here. |
| 05:39.57 | KimK | dli_: And I have the source tarball, but I'm trying to learn git and brlcad is on Sourceforge with SVN. So I've been fiddling with git-svn to load the development source, I have done that several times, lol. Maybe Sourceforge's SVN doesn't play nice with git-svn? I haven't got that sorted out yet. |
| 05:43.16 | KimK | dli_: Thanks for checking on me. Any and all comments and advice appreciated. Again, I would like to install BRL-CAD on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS by any method. No hurry, I just wanted to try it and see what all the fuss is about, lol! |
| 05:49.59 | KimK | dli_: Pursuing this problem from another angle, I wonder if you could help me find out what OS the BRL-CAD developers are using, where they got this new libncurses5? I have virtualbox, and I'm getting the new Debian 6.0 DVD (slowly). If I installed Debian 6.0 in VBox, would I be able to install BRL-CAD there? Just thinking about other ways to skin the cat. |
| 05:54.15 | Ralith | there's fuss? |
| 06:16.08 | KimK | Haha, sure! Powerful and free/open, if perhaps not easy to learn and use? Such are the reports I hear, anyway. |
| 06:21.54 | KimK | If it's in the same class as SolidWorks, and is free/open and Linux-friendly, I'd certainly like to have a look at it. |
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| 11:01.59 | dli_ | KimK, you may try to rebuild it. First make sure you have deb-src lines in your sources.list, then: apt-get build-dep brlcad; apt-get -b source brlcad |
| 11:25.11 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2599 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: /* Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines */ |
| 11:29.02 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2600 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: /* Display Managers / Framebuffers */ |
| 11:35.11 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2601 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: /* Graphical Interface Enhancements */ |
| 11:40.50 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2602 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: |
| 11:49.36 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2604 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: /* Project Ideas */ |
| 11:50.38 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2605 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: /* Graphical User Interface Infrastructure Projects */ |
| 11:50.52 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2606 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: /* User Interface Enhancement Projects */ |
| 11:54.19 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2607 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: separate into two categories |
| 11:56.57 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2608 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas: /* Tool Projects */ |
| 12:32.14 | ``Erik | it should build fine from source on any reasonably recent *nix... the developers use mac, freebsd, rhel and gentoo for the most part |
| 12:53.49 | cjdevlin | KimK: i have installed on 10.04 several times from source. i had no issues. |
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| 13:19.11 | cjdevlin | i just did a wget on this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/BRL-CAD%20Source/7.18.2/brlcad-7.18.2.tar.gz/download |
| 13:19.11 | cjdevlin | and the tarball i got was 7.18.0? |
| 13:31.54 | KimK | dli_ , cjdevlin: OK, I will try building from source. I did try installing Debian 6.0 in Vbox and then installing BRL-CAD there, that seemed to work, but I'd prefer to have BRL-CAD on my main screen. So this MGED is the main app screen? Are there tutorials on the Wiki? I looked at the wiki and downloaded a bunch of manuals, but I'm starting from zero here, and this doesn't look like any other CAD program I've ever run across. Anything on YouTub |
| 13:31.54 | KimK | e? Where do you recommend newbies begin? |
| 13:31.57 | KimK | Opps |
| 13:32.01 | KimK | Oops |
| 13:32.37 | cjdevlin | there is a tutorial on the wiki. before you try to build run: sh autogen.sh |
| 13:33.25 | cjdevlin | the tutorial is still *pretty* close, but there are some inconsistencies. |
| 13:33.36 | cjdevlin | did you ask about this in the ubuntu forums a week or so ago? |
| 13:33.41 | cjdevlin | ubuntu irc* |
| 13:36.29 | KimK | OK, thanks, I will. That's not in the wiki? I may have asked about updating libncurses5, were you there? I didn't really get anywhere with that though. Where does everybody put the tarball if they might want to have SVN later too? I presume SVN (devel) is broken once in awhile? |
| 13:37.50 | KimK | Or do I have to pick one or the other and use only ~/brlcad/ ? |
| 13:38.26 | cjdevlin | the tutorial is available . . . let me see if i can find it. i kind of remember something like that when i first tried to build. autogen took care of it. you can use checkinstall to install programs as a 'package' |
| 13:40.43 | cjdevlin | http://brlcad.org/wiki/Documentation |
| 13:41.13 | cjdevlin | the introduction to mged is a complete tutorial. you can be up and running in a few hours if you can sit that long :-) |
| 13:41.59 | cjdevlin | and the code is hosted on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/BRL-CAD%20Source/ |
| 13:42.13 | cjdevlin | sourceforge went down a few weeks ago, but that is very uncommon |
| 13:42.22 | KimK | OK, thanks for looking. I was just thinking that it would be nice to have both the tarball source for the latest release version and the SVN source for the devel version, even if broken sometimes, but I don't want to do anything that's non-standard. Who knows, maybe I can even help later on. |
| 13:43.41 | cjdevlin | i am not a developer. i am relatively new myself. the guys that really know what they are doing read the logs, so if you stay logged on long enough you will definitely get the help you need/want |
| 13:44.24 | cjdevlin | are you building now? |
| 13:44.25 | KimK | Yes, I was wondering about sourceforge. I'm a git fan and I tried to download with git-svn, which I've done before other places. But it didn't seem to work, it started, then stalled out. If I use SVN, it works fine. |
| 13:44.56 | cjdevlin | for sourceforge i usually just do a wget |
| 13:45.23 | KimK | That doesn't work for SVN, does it? |
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| 13:47.25 | cjdevlin | not sure. i have never tried it. i have just stuck with the stable releases so far. |
| 13:48.49 | KimK | Ha, thanks for the tip about staying logged on. I'll add this channel to my auto sign-on. A friend of mine has access to 1 seat of SolidWorks, but that may turn out to be temporary, who knows? So it would be good if I could learn BRL-CAD as an alternate. But I'm more in favor of it becasue of the free/open thing. SW may be nice, but I don't own it. I can own BRL-CAD. |
| 13:50.20 | cjdevlin | i know a windows version is in the works and they are converting from autotools to cmake for cross platform-ability </madeupword> |
| 13:50.49 | cjdevlin | are you trying to build now? |
| 13:53.08 | KimK | No, I haven't tried yet. I was still wondering about whether the tarball/scripts/automake/etc will be happy if I put them someplace besides ~/brlcad/ ? Can I put it anywhere? |
| 13:54.46 | cjdevlin | yes. |
| 13:54.58 | KimK | How about ~/brlcad7182/ ? Would that be OK? |
| 13:55.18 | cjdevlin | i download all of the files i build into ~/source/<nameofprog> |
| 13:56.05 | cjdevlin | when you extract it, it will create a directory in a format of: brlcad-7.18.2 |
| 13:56.21 | KimK | OK, I'll try that. I usually use git, so I haven't done a tarball for anything yet. But that sounds OK. |
| 13:56.53 | cjdevlin | it's just a compressed version. |
| 14:00.29 | KimK | The wiki mentions ./autogen.sh is that what you meant when you wrote sh autogen.sh ? |
| 14:01.37 | cjdevlin | yes, that does the same thing |
| 14:02.06 | KimK | OK. I hadn't seen that sh before, just the ./ |
| 14:03.06 | cjdevlin | ./ runs executables, sh invokes the shell directly. *.sh is the shell file type, so ./ will call the shell anyways |
| 14:03.19 | dloman | Mernin all. |
| 14:03.32 | KimK | Wait, before I do that, wasn't there some brlcad-build-essentials or something? Let me scroll back... |
| 14:03.59 | cjdevlin | regular build-essentials |
| 14:04.41 | KimK | brlcad-dev maybe? I thought there was something. No? |
| 14:05.09 | KimK | I should already have build-essentials |
| 14:05.32 | KimK | OK, I'll try it and see if it warns me |
| 14:05.36 | dloman | I know i'm jumping in the middle of this and havent read the backlog yet, but are you trying to get brlcad built from source? |
| 14:05.46 | KimK | Yes, I am. |
| 14:05.54 | KimK | HI, thanks for asking |
| 14:06.02 | cjdevlin | there are no ubuntu brl-cad dev packages. |
| 14:06.14 | KimK | OK, thanks. |
| 14:06.29 | dloman | KimK: having problems then? |
| 14:09.10 | KimK | Well, had some other problems before, but just starting to build from source right now. OK, it says it's prepared and to run ./configure and then make. I'll start it. |
| 14:09.49 | dloman | you have multicore machine? |
| 14:12.07 | dloman | My oh my, things are looking grim at the Dai-Ichi plant in Japan.... |
| 14:13.27 | KimK | No, one core. And I run 32-bit Ubuntu even though it's an AMD64 (small, cheap one though) because I stick with the EMC2 folks and 64-bit real-time isn't quite soup yet. |
| 14:14.05 | dloman | okay then, you're in for a bit of a wait. brl-cad takes a while to build. |
| 14:15.39 | KimK | I saw one medium-sized warning about >>>>>>>>>>>>>Floating Point May not be Compatible>>>>>>>>>>>> or something. And a couple of small warnings. But it didn't stop, it completed. It said type make, so I did. |
| 14:15.50 | dloman | right on. |
| 14:16.11 | dloman | if configure succeeded, then you are probably good to go. |
| 14:16.20 | dloman | the make will take some time, though. |
| 14:16.58 | cjdevlin | KimK: i had the same issue w/ the libncurses i think. running autogen.sh took care of it for me. i had the same floating point warning, but haven't run into an issue yet. |
| 14:17.42 | cjdevlin | just built on a sempron: Elapsed compilation time: 1 hour, 5 minutes, 24 seconds |
| 14:17.42 | cjdevlin | Elapsed time since configuration: 1 hour, 7 minutes, 30 seconds |
| 14:17.46 | cjdevlin | not too crazy :) |
| 14:20.28 | KimK | OK, no problem. cjdevlin , dloman , thanks very much for your help. Ha, I was just going to ask if it would be about an hour or more. I have a recent but unremarkable motherboard, 4G of ram (well, 3.7after the on-board-graphics robbery), and a cheap proc. |
| 14:21.22 | dloman | as long as you can afford the time, then 1+ hrs is no biggie :) |
| 14:22.04 | cjdevlin | KimK: the machine i built on is a fossil of sorts. it shouldn't take you quite that long. |
| 14:22.28 | cjdevlin | but if you are planning on upgrading/working on release code often, i would recommend using checkinstall |
| 14:22.33 | KimK | Don't feel like you guys have to stick around. If you've got someplace to go, go. Thanks for your help. I might let it run and come back later myself. Should I follow the wiki "build from SVN" (skipping the SVN part) to finish the install? I saw some stuff about adding symbolic links and so forth. |
| 14:23.23 | dloman | oh I work here, so I'll be here all day =D |
| 14:23.34 | KimK | Ha, OK, thanks. |
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| 14:28.57 | dloman | simply put, after the 'make' is finished, you can 'make install' to install the compiled binaries to your machine. |
| 14:29.11 | dloman | then just run any of them from the command line. |
| 14:29.24 | dloman | its likely you are looking for the graphical editor: mged |
| 14:31.00 | KimK | Ha, you're ahead of me, but I had already started typing: OK, so (reading from wiki) when make is done, make test, make benchmark, make install, bunch of symbolic links, fis the path, benchmark, mged. Does that sound about right? |
| 14:31.21 | KimK | s/fis/fix/ |
| 14:31.27 | dloman | could even be easier than that. |
| 14:31.29 | dli_ | KimK, I still suggest you run the debian/rules script to build, better than checkinstall |
| 14:32.11 | dloman | if you are installing to a dir that is already on your PATH, (and you have perms to do so) then it should be as simple as 'make install' then, once finished, 'mged' |
| 14:33.27 | KimK | dli_: OK, how do I do that? What do you suggest? dloman: Shall I fix the path first, when make is done? |
| 14:33.49 | dloman | what os are you running anyways? |
| 14:34.01 | dli_ | KimK, apt-get build-dep brlcad |
| 14:34.14 | dli_ | KimK, apt-get -b source brlcad |
| 14:34.26 | KimK | Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit with EMC2 special-patched RTAI real-time kernel. |
| 14:35.30 | dloman | KimK: at the end of the ./configure run, did you happen to see where it said it was set to install to? |
| 14:35.39 | KimK | dli_: OK, can I do that while make is running? |
| 14:36.29 | dli_ | KimK, oh, I didn't realize brlcad is not in ubuntu :( |
| 14:36.35 | KimK | dloman: No I didn't think to check, and I'm pretty sure it's scrolled off now. But I had deleted my ~/brlcad/ dir, so if it's back, it created it. |
| 14:36.47 | dloman | dli_: if KimK is already configured and compiling, why try getting packages via apt? |
| 14:37.01 | dloman | nm |
| 14:37.30 | dloman | KimK: do you have sudo perms on this machine? |
| 14:38.11 | dli_ | dloman, make install is basically bypassing apt, checkinstall should be avoided, whenever possible |
| 14:39.00 | cjdevlin | dli_: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289632 |
| 14:39.21 | dloman | what are the detremental effects of compiling and installing manually? Its never cause me a problem..... |
| 14:40.08 | KimK | dloman: Yes, my machine. I'm the owner. Hey, I really appreciate the help you guys. You probably all have a lot of experience with BRL-CAD now, but think back to when you first started with it. How long did it take before you could make simple cubes and cones and sort of have a clue what's going on with it? |
| 14:40.21 | cjdevlin | dli_: why do you recommend avoiding checkinstall (just curious - as i have said, i'm pretty new)? |
| 14:40.55 | cjdevlin | KimK: if you work through that tutorial you can make a simple radio in the first 1/2 hour |
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| 14:41.58 | dli_ | cjdevlin, if you have the debian/ script folder in source |
| 14:42.02 | KimK | cjdevlin: OK, I'll find it. I downloaded about any PDF I ran across. |
| 14:43.40 | cjdevlin | dli_: i would think just running checkinstall would be easier for someone new that is just trying it out over dpkg-buildpackage or debuild? |
| 14:44.55 | dli_ | cjdevlin, we need a debian/ubuntu repository, so user can do: apt-get build-dep, and apt-get -b source |
| 14:46.55 | cjdevlin | dli_: i don't disagree with that, but at this point, afaik, that isn't an option? |
| 14:47.09 | KimK | dli_: I did apt-get --dry-run on those packages. It was as you guys suspected, they were both "E: Unable to find a source package for brlcad" |
| 14:47.34 | dli_ | cjdevlin, I have no idea, I thought there must be a repository for brlcad already:( |
| 14:47.53 | dli_ | couldn't believe it, gentoo seems to be the only one has brlcad in main tree |
| 14:48.05 | KimK | (And I've got something like 109 repos cranked in!) |
| 14:48.19 | cjdevlin | there is not, the previous link i posted is the 'request for packaging' in debian (which will then make it into ubuntu) |
| 14:48.57 | cjdevlin | if the group would be so kind as to help me out, i wouldn't mind building/maintaining a ppa for brl-cad on launchpad |
| 14:49.50 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03davidloman * r43863 10/geomcore/trunk/tests/utility/uuidTest.cxx: Minor print verbage change. Removed WS. |
| 14:50.29 | KimK | Oh, BTW, make is done. Probably for a few minutes now. (Put your money into more RAM, every time, lol!) |
| 14:51.28 | KimK | cjdevlin: That would be great, ppa's are always a great convenience. |
| 15:00.30 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03davidloman * r43864 10/geomcore/trunk/src/utility/Config.cxx: WS and Formatting. |
| 15:00.40 | dli_ | cjdevlin, KimK just want to double check before 'checkinstall', what is your prefix during ./configure |
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| 15:01.51 | cjdevlin | after make, just do: sudo checkinstall |
| 15:02.06 | cjdevlin | for checkinstall you shouldn't have to do anything different |
| 15:03.36 | cjdevlin | (outside of making sure checkinstall is there: sudo apt-get install checkinstall) |
| 15:12.31 | KimK | Oh, sorry guys, I was following the wiki. So far I've done make test and make benchmark. And I skipped ahead to fix the paths because I haven't quite figured out what to do with that bunch of symbolic links yet. Different versions installed at the same time? dli_ OK, how can I check the prefix? The directory I was building in was ~/source/brlcad-7.18.2 I have no knowledge of checkinstall, but I'll check up on it. OK, I have checkinstall now. I |
| 15:12.31 | KimK | <PROTECTED> |
| 15:15.24 | dli_ | KimK, better to check config.log |
| 15:17.02 | dli_ | KimK, if your prefix is /usr it mean mess up the whole system, better in /opt/brlcad, or /usr/brlcad |
| 15:18.28 | KimK | There's a bunch of stuff in config.log, I'm not sure what you're asking for. |
| 15:19.12 | dloman | can easily just run ./config again, and note the install paths at the end |
| 15:19.44 | KimK | Would you like me to pastebin the config.log file? |
| 15:21.09 | KimK | Especially, how can I tell if this "mess up the whole system" thing has occurred? |
| 15:21.31 | dloman | KimK: did you do a 'make install' ? |
| 15:25.07 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03davidloman * r43865 10/geomcore/trunk/ (include/Config.h src/utility/Config.cxx): Added int and short getter to Config. Simplify via code consolidation |
| 15:25.43 | dli_ | KimK, you can pastebin config.log |
| 15:26.10 | KimK | dloman: No, I haven't. I did the autogen thing, configure, make, make test, make benchmark, passed on make install, took a pass on the symbolic links, skipped ahead to fix the paths and wait for more advice, haven't got to benchmark and mged yet. |
| 15:27.19 | dloman | The sym links are an optional setup for having multiple versions of the brlcad libraries installed. (its just standard ops for any libraries installed that require olderversions to remain on the system) |
| 15:27.36 | dloman | so from this point on, if all you are trying to do is get mged up and running: |
| 15:28.17 | dloman | 1) Verify your installation path by: either runing ./config again or check the config.log to see where the PREFIX path is set to. |
| 15:28.28 | dloman | 2) 'mged' |
| 15:28.33 | dloman | and you should be good to go. |
| 15:28.57 | dli_ | dloman, what's the default prefix? /usr/loca/? |
| 15:29.20 | KimK | Apparently that file is too big for pastebin. Do you guys have a place you like to post that file? |
| 15:29.27 | dloman | I believe so. |
| 15:30.09 | dloman | im on RHEL, but I'll check the default prefix here. |
| 15:30.21 | KimK | OK, running ./config again |
| 15:30.36 | dli_ | KimK, only beginning part, like: head -100 config.log|wgetpaste |
| 15:31.05 | dloman | looks like /usr/brlcad/ is default for RHEL.. and likely ubuntu also. |
| 15:31.53 | cjdevlin | it is |
| 15:32.16 | dli_ | ac_default_prefix=/usr/local |
| 15:32.23 | KimK | prefix: /usr/brlcad Does that sound right? |
| 15:32.32 | dloman | so as long as you have perms to install to /usr/brlcad, you should be gtg. |
| 15:32.37 | dloman | sure does. |
| 15:32.40 | dli_ | AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT([/usr/brlcad]) |
| 15:32.50 | KimK | There are some subs below that too |
| 15:33.06 | dloman | right. standard stuff: lib, include, share..... |
| 15:33.38 | KimK | Still need the short pastebin? |
| 15:33.55 | cjdevlin | in the directory where you ran the config and make scripts, if brl-cad is something you sure you want, you can just do: sudo make install |
| 15:34.13 | cjdevlin | if you aren't sure (it's something you might want to remove) then you can look into using checkinstall |
| 15:34.57 | dli_ | cjdevlin, always use checkinstall instead of 'make install', whenever possible |
| 15:35.12 | dloman | even if someone does a 'make install' and want to uninstall it later.... its as simple as rm -fr /usr/brlcad |
| 15:35.18 | dloman | or even 'make uninstall' |
| 15:35.25 | KimK | I want it, but I might at some point want to upgrade to the next newer tarball. How would that affect things? |
| 15:36.06 | dli_ | KimK, do checkinstall and let apt to handle it :( |
| 15:36.20 | cjdevlin | agrees with dli_ |
| 15:36.43 | KimK | Oh, OK. So just delete the dir ~/source/brlcad-7.18.2 and install new in ~/source/brlcad-7.18.4 (or whatever?) |
| 15:37.18 | KimK | OK, so use the checkinstall? |
| 15:37.34 | KimK | Sorry, I'm a slow typer. Or I type to long. |
| 15:37.44 | cjdevlin | KimK: yes, use checkinstall |
| 15:37.49 | KimK | s/to long/too long/ |
| 15:37.55 | cjdevlin | sudo apt-get install checkinstall |
| 15:38.36 | cjdevlin | then in the directory where you did the config and make do: sudo checkinstall (and then just go w/ the defaults and a simple package desc. i.e. 'brl-cad') |
| 15:38.38 | KimK | I have checkinstall now. And abandon the make install that I never did? |
| 15:39.04 | KimK | And abandon the symbolic link business? |
| 15:39.16 | dloman | not to argue, because checkinstall certainly is a good tool, but brlcad has its own uninstall rule plus it installs to its own directory, so its non-intrusive. *shrug* |
| 15:39.38 | dloman | i use make install and make uninstall on my ubuntu 10.10 machine all the time. never had an issue. |
| 15:39.39 | cjdevlin | KimK: checkinstall will essentially do the make install for you, but it will treat the install as if you had installed it via synaptic/apt |
| 15:39.58 | KimK | I don't mind running out of a directory. The EMC folks call that running-in-place. |
| 15:40.03 | dloman | KimK: Yes, the sym link stuff is optional. |
| 15:40.28 | cjdevlin | dloman: i agree with you also, but it's nice to have it come up when you do dpkg -l (esp when newer people need other help that this may affect) |
| 15:41.00 | KimK | The EMC folks use run-in-place to have assorted versions of their programs all installed at once. |
| 15:41.34 | KimK | Maybe some call it compiled-in-place? |
| 15:44.01 | KimK | Let me ask you this. Assuming in the future there might be a release of brlcad-7.18.4 (as above), then I could have both .2 and .4 installed at once if I leave apt-get out of it? But if I use checkinstall twice, then apt-get will want to remove the older version, even though it's in a separate directory, is that right? |
| 15:45.01 | cjdevlin | KimK: both options allow for multiple installs. at this point it is up to you to determine which method is easiest for you. |
| 15:45.13 | KimK | Sorry, I'm not really familiar with checkinstall, I'm just trying to get a handle on all this. |
| 15:45.36 | cjdevlin | but either way it is very possible to have multiple versions of brl-cad installed concurrently |
| 15:45.57 | cjdevlin | and neither choice is really the *wrong* one. |
| 15:48.54 | KimK | Well, I don't mind whether I type 20 characters or 30 characters on the command line, but what I do know is that I'm pretty new at BRL-CAD, and I expect to install it again on other PCs, and there's a written procedure on the wiki that I can refer to again, however imperfect it might be. So I think I'd like to refer to the wiki just because it's written on the wall there, if you guys don't mind. |
| 15:50.01 | cjdevlin | it is your computing machine :-) and people will be here to help either way. |
| 15:50.56 | KimK | And this should not be taken as any type of criticism of you guys, I appreciate your help very much and am just trying to stumble my way through the jungle here. |
| 15:51.03 | dloman | download->autogen.sh->configure->make->make install |
| 15:51.22 | dloman | if everything goes well, it should be that easy |
| 15:51.52 | dloman | if some of the libs that brlcad needs are not present on the machine, then './config --enable-all' |
| 15:52.04 | dloman | and brlcad will build everything it needs to run |
| 15:53.37 | KimK | OK, easy is good, lol! And until there's a PPA or a repo or something better, installing by tarballs in ~/source/brlcad_revision_number/ seems like an OK thing to do? |
| 15:53.53 | dloman | yuppers. |
| 15:54.10 | dloman | if you have any Winderz machines, the binaries are precompiled. == even easier |
| 15:54.54 | dli_ | looks like Nishchay is working on brlcad in debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289632 |
| 15:55.41 | KimK | OK. So now to tidy up the loose ends here, I should just have to say make install? Then benchmark and mged? |
| 15:56.04 | dli_ | KimK, checkinstall |
| 15:56.18 | cjdevlin | KimK: sudo make install |
| 15:56.24 | cjdevlin | that will install it |
| 15:56.43 | KimK | checkinstall? sudo make install? |
| 15:57.06 | cjdevlin | if you are trying to stick to the wiki, just do: sudo make install |
| 16:03.24 | KimK | I finally got around to the short pastebin, I just grabbed the first several hundred lines and pasted them. http://pastebin.com/WpBLDK6T |
| 16:10.11 | KimK | I looked at the bugs.debian link above, there was a git repo of BRL-CAD at Debian, at least in Aug 2010? Nice! It would be nice to think it's still there. |
| 16:10.35 | dli_ | --prefix=/usr |
| 16:18.00 | KimK | dli_: What's that? |
| 16:19.31 | dli_ | KimK, redo it :( |
| 16:20.50 | dli_ | ./configure --prefix=/opt/brlcad --with-opengl=/usr/lib --with-tcl=/usr/lib --disable-strict-build |
| 16:21.04 | dli_ | KimK, this is what I use for archlinux |
| 16:28.44 | dli_ | KimK, ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/brlcad/lib64 --prefix=/usr/brlcad --enable-strict-build --datadir=/usr/brlcad/share --mandir=/usr/brlcad/man --disable-almost-everything --disable-regex-build --disable-png-build --disable-zlib-build --disable-urt-build --disable-tcl-b |
| 16:28.44 | dli_ | uild --disable-tk-build --disable-itcl-build --disable-tkimg-build --disable-jove-build --disable-tnt-install --disable-iwidgets-install --enable-opennurbs-build --with-ldflags=-L/usr/lib64/itcl3.4 -L/usr/lib64/itk3.4 --with-x --with-x11 --disable-debug --disable-optimization --disable-runtime-debug --disable-verbose --disable-warnings --disable-progress --disable-documentation --enable-models-install --enable-parallel --with-ogl --with-jdk=/opt/ |
| 16:28.45 | dli_ | sun-jdk-1.6.0.24 |
| 16:29.42 | dloman | wow, thats a heck of a config line... why you need all that? |
| 16:31.54 | KimK | OK, it ran the benchmarks in 9:23 and mged gives me a big black screen and a smaller white screen. Of course, I have no clue what to do with either of them, lol! But I think it's working. And I do thank all you guys for your help, I really appreciate it. I'll keep hanging around here, but first I've got a lot of intro manuals and tutorials to look at. Thanks! |
| 16:32.44 | dli_ | dloman, not sure, it's autogenerated from gentoo ebuild |
| 16:49.37 | KimK | I have to go now, but I'll leave this window open in case you guys think of any advice for me while I'm gone. Thanks again. |
| 16:52.27 | dli_ | Benchmark results indicate an approximate VGR performance metric of 4859 |
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| 18:27.13 | starseeker | dloman: as long as I'm asking dumb questions, is this of any interest to us? http://s11n.net/ |
| 18:30.37 | dloman | maybe, i had looked at generalized object serialization, but thre are some limitations associated with it. Not to mention that we really dont need to send an entire object across the net, usually just specific pieces fo data. |
| 19:23.31 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r43866 10/geomcore/trunk/src/GS/testclient/gstestclient.c: Nothing useful yet with testclient - just a note that raw msg types down the socket isn't going to cut it for any msg type, even simple cases. |
| 21:26.59 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r43867 10/geomcore/trunk/src/GS/testclient/ (CMakeLists.txt gstestclient.c tpl.c tpl.h): OK, start over with testclient. First job is to put together a valid GSNet Msg to send. Have a look at tpl and see if it can be of any help for this. |
| 21:53.41 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r43868 10/geomcore/trunk/src/GS/testclient/gstestclient.c: get as far as getting what's expected into a struct. |
| 22:04.06 | CIA-14 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r43869 10/geomcore/trunk/tests/CMakeLists.txt: Don't want the value in the cache - just set it locally so only the tests directory gets it. |
| 22:46.39 | starseeker | O.o http://automagically.de/g3dviewer/ |
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