Re: Question concerning SWARM installation

[Paul Johnson]

Hello Heiko!

It might make a difference if you told us:

1) what version of Swarm
2) what version of gcc does your system have
3) which tcl/tk does your system have.
4) what configure statement did you use when Swarm was built.

When I answer below, I'm assuming you get the same errors if you try to 
run heatbugs but not heatbugs in batch mode?

Heiko Holtschneider wrote:
> Dear Paul,
> trying to install SWARM on my Debian Linux 2.4.18 mashine brought me to
> your SWARM FAQ.
> Unfortunately at one point I couldn't find an answer to my questions
> anymore.
>
> Installation of SWARM itself was ok.
> Also compilation of an application as for example the hello-world or the
> heatbug app from SWARM homepage.
> However running the app gave me the appended output for the first and
> the second run and the backtrace output of gdb.
>
> I would be really thankful for a short answer if you have an idea.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Heiko
>
> first run:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> $ ./hello-world 
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol
> `__objc_class_name_SwarmObject' are not defined
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol
> `__objc_class_name_GUISwarm' are not defined
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol
> `__objc_class_name_EmptyProbeMap' are not defined
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol
> `__objc_class_name_Swarm' are not defined

These ones are the "harmless compiler warnings" describd in the FAQ. 
The objc patch that we have available for gcc3 will make them go away. 
Also, if you installed Swarm from a binary package, you would not see 
these.  We also have patched gcc-2.95.2 or 2.95.3, but I think that if 
you are building a current Swarm snapshot, then you should use gcc-3.0.4.

> error: TkExtra (instance)
>
> Aborted
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> second run:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> $ ./hello-world 
> error: TkExtra (instance)
>
> Aborted
> ---------------------------------------------------------
This is a sign your Swarm install is not correct. This is a tcl/tk 
problem, I don't know the cause, I'm forwarding your message into 
swarm-support and suggest you join that list in order to ask again or 
read the answers others give.


> gdb output was:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> (gdb) run
> Starting program:
> /home/calvin/Projects/swarmapps-2.1.1/hello-world/v01/.libs/hello-world 
> error: TkExtra (instance)
>
>
> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0x4064f9f1 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0  0x4064f9f1 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x4064f6d4 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x40650e51 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #3  0x40229840 in objc_verror (object=0x80977c0, code=0, fmt=0xbffff604 "error: 
> TkExtra (instance)\n\n", ap=0xbffff660) at misc.c:66
> #4  0x4022d239 in _i_Object__error_ (self=0x80977c0, _cmd=0x4011eb48, aString=0x404189f4 
> "") at Object.m:345
> #5  0x400fada2 in _i_TkExtra__preInitWithArgc_argv_ (self=0x80977c0, 
> _cmd=0x4012cbd8, argc=1, argv=0xbffff904) at TkExtra.m:95
> #6  0x40126025 in _i_TclInterp__initWithArgc_argv_ (self=0x80977c0, 
> _cmd=0x4012ce00, argc=1, argv=0xbffff904) at TclInterp.m:294
> #7  0x40126d56 in _i_TkInterp__initWithArgc_argv_ (self=0x80977c0, 
> _cmd=0x40120da0, argc=1, argv=0xbffff904) at TkInterp.m:195
> #8  0x400fea7c in tkobjc_initTkInterp (arguments=0x8088088) at internal.m:140
> #9  0x40101766 in initTkObjc (arguments=0x8088088) at tkobjc.m:36
> #10 0x400517b5 in initSimtoolsGUI () at simtoolsgui.m:17
> #11 0x4006398e in _initSwarm_ (argc=1, argv=0xbffff904, appName=0x8049d66 "hello-world", 
> version=0x8049d60 "2.1.1", bugAddress=0x8049d4c "address@hidden", argumentsClass=0x0, 
> options=0x0, optionFunc=0, forceBatchMode=0, inhibitExecutableSearchFlag=0) at simtools.m:82
> #12 0x08048bee in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff904)
> at main.m:18
> #13 0x4063f6cf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> ---------------------------------------------------------



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