Re: [Swarm-Support] Trouble with installing Swarm-2.2

[Bill Northcott]

On 24/08/2005, at 5:58 AM, Rajagopal, Abhilash ((UMR-Student)) wrote:
> Could anyone please help me out with the following problem???
> I am a beginner and i would really need some help in installing  
> swarm2.2
................
> These are the steps i followed to install Swarm-2.2
>
> I installed the following without errors in </usr> :
>
> BLT2.4z        from soundforge.net
> TCL/TK 8.3.3   from soundforge.net
> libpng 1.2.8   from soundforge.net
> zlib 1.2.2     from soundforge.net
> xpm 3.4k       from ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/needed
> hdf5 1.2.1     from ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/needed
> jdk1.5         from sun
> GCC 3.4.4      from soundforge.net
> libffi-1.2     from ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/needed
> make 3.78.1    from ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/needed
> kaffe 1.0.5    from ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/needed
>
> Then i downloaded swarm2.2 and ran "./configure --prefix=/usr"
> then "make". There were some errors about BLT2.4z
> so i downloaded
>
> BLT2.4o        from ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/needed

Firstly a caution: Being a largely MacOS I don't build or use Swarm  
on Linux.

For what it is worth, here are a few thoughts on what you seem to be  
doing.

1.  It is a 'bad idea' to install packages into /usr.  Stuff you add  
to a UNIX system should go in /usr/local /opt or some such.  /usr/ 
bin /usr/lib etc.. should be kept for system distribution packages.
2. Get Swarm to build without Java first then add that if you need it.
3.  Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 and hdf5 1.2.1 and BLT2.4o are really old.  I think  
you should use up to date packages.
4.  I am not clear if you are building the packages from source.  If  
these are binaries you are finding around the internet, they may just  
be incompatible.  You are better to build the packages from source,  
particularly BLT.
5.  AFAIK libffi is part of gcc-3.4.  So you do not need another  
potentially incompatible version.
6.  If you build using libffi, then the avcall included in the Swarm  
sources is not used.  They are alternatives.
7.  Any recent Linux should have a usable make.  You should not need  
to replace it.

Hope this helps
Bill Northcott