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RE: New package for testing: OpenDX
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Billinghurst, David \(CRTS\)" <David dot Billinghurst at riotinto dot com>,"cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 00:34:08 -0400
- Subject: RE: New package for testing: OpenDX
David,
Excellent. I've applied this patch to dxworker.in in the dx sources. I'll
roll a new package soon.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Billinghurst, David
> (CRTS)
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:47 AM
> To: Harold L Hunt; cygx
> Subject: RE: New package for testing: OpenDX
>
>
> This patch to dxworker gets be a DX startup window. Bed time now.
>
> $ diff -u dxworker.orig dxworker
> --- dxworker.orig 2002-05-24 00:34:01.000000000 +1000
> +++ dxworker 2002-05-24 00:38:06.000000000 +1000
> @@ -137,6 +137,14 @@
>
> breaksw
>
> + case CYGWIN*:
> + set exarch=cygwin
> + set uiarch=cygwin
> +
> + set remote=/usr/bin/rsh
> +
> + breaksw
> +
> case Darwin*:
> set exarch=macos
> set uiarch=macos
> @@ -1463,6 +1471,7 @@
> case aviion:
> case alphax:
> case linux:
> + case cygwin:
> case freebsd:
> case macos:
> breaksw
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold L Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, 24 May 2002 12:27
> To: Billinghurst, David (CRTS); Harold Hunt; cygx
> Cc: ssiddiqi@hkpharma.com
> Subject: RE: New package for testing: OpenDX
>
>
> David,
>
> Actually I was hoping that Suhaib would see this and tell me what
> to fix. I
> did at one point get an OpenDX window to appear, but I don't have any
> experience with DX to tell if this was the expected window, etc.
> It was my
> understanding that OpenDX just has Cygwin support built-in now...
> but you may
> be right that there are platform config files that are missing.
>
> Let me know if you find more information about what to do to the package.
>
> I'll cc this to Suhaib's last known address to see if he has any comments.
>
> Harold
>
> "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com> said:
>
> > Harold,
> >
> > I have grabbed this and installed it. Haven't got it
> > to work yet.
> >
> > 1. The 4.2.0 source was released a couple of days ago ;->
> > 2. Need to use /bin/tcsh rather than /bin/csh in
> > /usr/X11R6/dx/bin/dx
> > 3. The dx script gives up with message "unknown machine type"
> > It seems to be missing platform specific stuff for cygwin
> > 4. I recall a working cygwin binaries from Suhaib Siddiqi
> > some time ago - late 2000? - so there must be patches
> > around. I will see if I still have it on a CD somewhere.
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2002 2:28
> > To: cygx
> > Subject: New package for testing: OpenDX
> >
> >
> > I've posted a new package, OpenDX, for testing to the sources.redhat.com
> > mirror network.
> >
>
>
>