trouble installing swarm on redhat

[Paul Box]

Hello group

After a few years as a loyal SuSE user, I am now using a computer with redhat 
7.2 installed.  I have been following with much interest the discussions on 
getting swarm to compile and run, with limited success.  I tried building 
swarm from scratch, but that's not a good way to go untill I'm ready to spend 
a large block of dedicated time to the task.

This will probably just show my unfamiliarity with rpms' but here's the 
problem when I try to install all the needed componensts from rpms.

When I try to install PJ's latest version of gcc:
address@hidden swarm]# rpm -Ui gcc3-3.0.4-2pj.i386.rpm  
error: failed dependencies:
        binutils >= 2.11.90.0.8-12 is needed by gcc3-3.0.4-2pj

 When I tried to update binutils I got the following:

address@hidden swarm]# rpm -Ui binutils-2.11.90.0.8-9.i386.rpm 
package binutils-2.11.90.0.8-9 is already installed
address@hidden swarm]# rpm -Ui gcc3-3.0.4-2pj.i386.rpm  
error: failed dependencies:
        binutils >= 2.11.90.0.8-12 is needed by gcc3-3.0.4-2pj
address@hidden swarm]#


I also tried building gcc 3.0.4 and swarm-2002-02-06 from scratch.  I was able 
to compile and install both with no apparent problems, but when I tried to run 
heatbugs, I got a segmentation fault.  The backtrace is as such:

Starting program: /home/sanduku/swarm/swarmapps-2.1.1/heatbugs/heatbugs

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000001 in __strtol_internal (nptr=0x812acb0 "H\211\013\b\210¼\013\b",
    endptr=0x500000c, base=1, group=135399256) at eval.c:36
36      eval.c: No such file or directory.
        in eval.c
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000001 in __strtol_internal (nptr=0x812acb0 "H\211\013\b\210¼\013\b",
    endptr=0x500000c, base=1, group=135399256) at eval.c:36
#1  0x4028c90d in CreateBusy () at eval.c:41
#2  0x4028c9f8 in HoldBusy () at eval.c:41
#3  0x4028cb66 in HoldOp () at eval.c:41
#4  0x4028cf42 in BusyCmd () at eval.c:41
#5  0x403c91a0 in TclInvokeStringCommand () at eval.c:41
#6  0x403fbe92 in InvokeImportedCmd () at eval.c:41
#7  0x403e3bc1 in TclExecuteByteCode () at eval.c:41
#8  0x403c9baa in Tcl_EvalObjEx () at eval.c:41
#9  0x403cf47f in Tcl_ForeachObjCmd () at eval.c:41
#10 0x404001cd in EvalObjv () at eval.c:41
#11 0x4040089b in Tcl_EvalEx () at eval.c:41
#12 0x40400b89 in Tcl_Eval () at eval.c:41
#13 0x40154711 in _i_TclInterp__eval_ (self=0x8098f50, _cmd=0x4014d158,
    fmt=0x4013c580 "foreach w [winfo children .] {busy hold $w} ;update")
    at TclInterp.m:345
#14 0x4012935c in tkobjc_updateIdleTasks (hold=1) at common.m:260
#15 0x4005f105 in _i_ProbeDisplay__createEnd (self=0x8127958, _cmd=0x4006bb48)
    at ProbeDisplay.m:92
#16 0x4005fbe8 in 
_i_ProbeDisplayManager___createProbeDisplayFor__setWindowGeometryRecordName_ 
(self=0x8110b08, _cmd=0x4006bb60, anObject=0x8125660,
    windowGeometryRecordName=0x8127928 "ProbeDisplay-heatbugModelSwarm")
    at ProbeDisplayManager.m:146
#17 0x4005fc70 in 
_i_ProbeDisplayManager__createArchivedProbeDisplayFor_variableName_ 
(self=0x8110b08, _cmd=0x4006c870, anObject=0x8125660,
    variableName=0x804bc9e "heatbugModelSwarm") at ProbeDisplayManager.m:159
#18 0x40061898 in createArchivedProbeDisplayNamed (obj=0x8125660,
    name=0x804bc9e "heatbugModelSwarm") at simtoolsgui.m:67
#19 0x0804a39e in _i_HeatbugObserverSwarm__buildObjects (self=0x811a878,
    _cmd=0x804dde8) at HeatbugObserverSwarm.m:91
#20 0x080499be in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffac4) at main.m:41
#21 0x405b9507 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8049934 <main>, argc=1,
    ubp_av=0xbffffac4, init=0x8048d28 <_init>, fini=0x804b080 <_fini>,
    rtld_fini=0x4000dc14 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffabc)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129


I will be happy to install either using rpms or buidling from source.  Any 
ideas on which is the way to go?

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// Paul Box
// Geography and Earth Resources
// Utah State University


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