[GRASS5] fifo problems opening X0 display (CVS compile) (fwd)

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Hi

My apologies if this is ground ground that has been covered already. I
have just compiled grass CVS from source (checked out Monday night). The
compilation process seems to have gone fine, and I can start grass and
tcltkgrass no problem. However opening a display fails:

Usage: x0 [-] "input_fifo output_fifo" [nlev]
Please start graphics monitor <x0>

I have trawled through the mailing list archives and tried the various
hints there (./configure --with-socket I think I used, and also
running the make_fifos script).. Can anyone tell me what I need to do
here?

Many thanks,

Tim Sutton

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Tim Sutton wrote:

My apologies if this is ground ground that has been covered already. I
have just compiled grass CVS from source (checked out Monday night).

Did you check out the release branch (releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0 tag)
or the head (no tag)? I don't know whether the head actually works at
present, so if you have that checked out, get the release branch instead
with "cvs update -r releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0".

The
compilation process seems to have gone fine, and I can start grass and
tcltkgrass no problem. However opening a display fails:

Usage: x0 [-] "input_fifo output_fifo" [nlev]
Please start graphics monitor <x0>

The text of the error message indicates that the monitor was compiled
for FIFOs, but the fact that the error message is printed suggests
that mon.start was compiled for sockets.

If you are using the release branch, my first suspicion would be that an
incomplete version of GRASS was installed over an existing version which
used a different

Was this the first time you installed GRASS, or was there another
version already present? Did you get any build errors in error.log?
Is USE_G_SOCKS defined in src/include/config.h?

--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>

3

Hi

Just a quick note to say thank you for your help. I had indeed checked
out the dev branch and not the release branch.
As recommended, I did:

cvs update -r releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0

to check out the correct branch of cvs, then uncommented:

USE_G_SOCKS defined in src/include/config.h

Then did a

make uninstall && make clean

To clean up my previous botched installation, and finally

./configure --with-socket
make
su - root
make install

Everything works fine now. I am pleased to see the shapefile importer
seems to work quite now - I never had much luck with it before.

Regards

Tim Sutton

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Glynn Clements wrote:

Tim Sutton wrote:

> My apologies if this is ground ground that has been covered already. I
> have just compiled grass CVS from source (checked out Monday night).

Did you check out the release branch (releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0 tag)
or the head (no tag)? I don't know whether the head actually works at
present, so if you have that checked out, get the release branch instead
with "cvs update -r releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0".

> The
> compilation process seems to have gone fine, and I can start grass and
> tcltkgrass no problem. However opening a display fails:
>
> Usage: x0 [-] "input_fifo output_fifo" [nlev]
> Please start graphics monitor <x0>

The text of the error message indicates that the monitor was compiled
for FIFOs, but the fact that the error message is printed suggests
that mon.start was compiled for sockets.

If you are using the release branch, my first suspicion would be that an
incomplete version of GRASS was installed over an existing version which
used a different

Was this the first time you installed GRASS, or was there another
version already present? Did you get any build errors in error.log?
Is USE_G_SOCKS defined in src/include/config.h?