RE: New package for testing: OpenDX

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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.
> >
>
>
>