Re: [Swarm-Support] mac osx last ditch

[Bill Northcott]

Duh.  Don't you hate doing computer support when you can' t stand behind 
people and watch they are doing.

I finally managed to reproduce your problem.  The answer is very simple:
You have to run the X11 GUI apps from an X11 terminal.  You could probably 
make them run from an Aqua terminal, but you will need to set up more 
environment variables.  Compare printenv in an Xterm with the output of 
the same command in the MacOS X Terminal.  Tk is grokking because it can't 
find the X11 libraries!

Bill Northcott

address@hidden wrote on 29/03/2003 12:22:16 PM:

> Thanks - I've tried installing on a completely clean 10.2 on a
> different machine (powerbook G3 instead of a pbG4) in case I had
> rogue installs left around, amd fixing the path - but the results are
> the same! The non-graphic swarm apps run happily, heatbugs etc all
> give:

> [Jonathan-Impetts-Computer:~/swarmapps-2.1.1/heatbugs] jonathan% 
./heatbugs
> error: TkExtra (instance)

> Abort

> I guess I'm doing something wrong in the tk installation,
> therefore. The packages all appear in (and only in) /Receipts. The
> sequence was as follows:
> OS X Developer, X11, X11SDK (all from Apple)
> BLT, gcc, gsed, tclX, tkX, hdf5, libpng, swarmx (latest) (all from 
swarmx)
> download & unzip swarmapps2.1.1
> setenvs as described in ReadMe
> make heatbugs (complains only about missing dir /billn and multiply
> defined _tclStubsPtr, _tclPlatStubsPtr, _tclIntPlatStubsPtr,
> _tclIntStubsPtr, _TclInitStubs)

> Jonathan

> 
> >Sorry about the delay replying, but I have been rather busy and missed
> >your message.
> >
> >I have never seen anything like your error.  However, I notice your 
path
> >contains both a space and parentheses.  These are not usually allowed 
in
> >UNIX paths and I avoid them, because they can create problems with UNIX
> >tools which assume a space to be an argument seperator.
> >
> >Bill Northcott
> >
> >address@hidden wrote on 05/03/2003 04:32:48 AM:
> >
> >>  Hello,
> >>          Giving great thanks, I succeeded in installing the various
> >>  OSX packages and Mac X11 etc. Heatbugs made with only minor warnings
> >>  (/billn missing, some duplication). On trying to run, it aborted
> >>  thus. Any ideas?
> >>          Thanks,
> >  >         Jonathan
> >>

> 
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