Dear All
Yesterday i loaded the binary version of grass4.1beta from the 'moon'.
It took me about 2 hours getting it over the Altantic, including un-taring
at our SPARC IPC (SUN.OS 4.1,1, OPENWIN 3). All went well, and after editing
monitorcap and grass4.1beta scripted it W O R K E D.
The only problem was the XDRIVER, which I could not get running. After two
hours of hacking around with the fifo's and testing the new XDRIVER in the old
GRASS4.0, the solution was:
- cut out the section which regenerates the fifo named pipes from the
GISGEN.sh scripts inside the source code for 4.1beta. I called it
makefifis.sh (se attached script below).
- delete the old fifo's inside the $GISBASE/dev directory.
- regenerate the fifo's using makefifos.sh
After that, everything worked well, as far as I have been able to test until
now.
Thanks to all GRASS developers
Bernd Munier, Roskilde, DK
PS.: We will compile and install all GRASS4.1 from source code lateron.
PPS: Will there be a general SQL interface, or is it limited to INFORMIX.
We are currrently using SYBASE.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# create fifo files for graphics drivers
# REMEMBER TO EDIT TO MATCH LOKATION OF GISBASE!!
#
GISBASE='/ddr/g41b/b/sun4s'
echo $GISBASE
for i in a b
do
fifo=0
while test $fifo -lt 21
do
if test ! -f $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i
then
/etc/mknod $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i p
chmod 0666 $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i
echo $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i created
fi
fifo=`expr $fifo + 1`
done
done
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