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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 09:52:53 CDT

Hi,
  We haven't compiled VMD on Solaris 2.6 for quite a few years.
I'd strongly recommend that you consider upgrading to Solaris 8
if possible. In any case, if you wish to compile on 2.6 anyway,
you'll probably have to disable the PTHREADS option. Also, you
need to use the "bleeding edge" version of Tachyon in order to use
the LIBTACHYON option, which I've got posted here:
  ftp://ftp.ks.uiuc.edu/pub/group/johns/tachyon03072003.tar.gz

You won't be able to take librt.* from a Solaris 7 box, that will
cause you runtime problems like you already saw below. If you actually
want the binary to run on 2.6, then you'll have to compile 100% of it
on a 2.6 box.

Let us know if you need more help.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:45:53AM -0400, Prabhakar Reddy Gudla wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am trying to custom built VMD 1.8 from source on SUN Solaris 2.6 on
> Ultra10. So far I have be able to:
> * compile plugins w/o problems/errors
> * 'make depend' in $VMD/src goes smoothly w/o any errors (few warnings abt
> undef in python header files)
>
> I am compiling for the following options:
> SOLARIS2 OPENGL FLTKOPENGL ACTC FLTK TK IMD LIBTACHYON TCL PYTHON PTHREADS
> SILENT
>
> The error i get is:
>
> Compiling LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C --> LibTachyonDisplayDevice.o ...
> "LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C", line 285: Error: RT_PROJECTION_ORTHOGRAPHIC is not defined.
> "LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C", line 286: Error: The function "rt_camera_setup" must have a prototype.
> "LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C", line 298: Error: RT_PROJECTION_PERSPECTIVE is not defined.
> "LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C", line 299: Error: The function "rt_camera_setup" must have a prototype.
> "LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C", line 325: Error: The function "rt_directional_light" must have a prototype.
> 5 Error(s) detected.
> *** Error code 5
> The following command caused the error:
> echo "Compiling " LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C " --> " LibTachyonDisplayDevice.o " ..."; \
> CC -D__EXTENSIONS__ -mt -fast -xO3 -native -xarch=v8plusa -D"sqrtf=sqrt" -D"cosf=cos" -D"sinf=sin" -D"fabsf=fabs" -D"acosf=acos" -DARCH_SOLARIS2 -DVMDOPENGL -DVMDGRAPHICS -DVMDOPENGL -DVMDFLTKOPENGL -DVMDGRAPHICS -DVMDACTC -DVMDIMD -DVMDLIBTACHYON -DVMDPYTHON -DVMDTHREADS -DUSEPOSIXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DVMDSURF -DVMDMSMS -DVMDISOSURFACE -DVMDTCL -DVMDTK -DVMDSTATICPLUGINS -DVMDGUI -DVMDFLTK -I/usr/openwin/include -I../lib/actc -I../lib/tachyon/src -I/usr/local/python/2.2/include/python2.2 -I/usr/local/tcl/include -I../plugins/include -I../plugins/compile/lib_SOLARIS2/molfile -I/usr/include -I../lib/fltk/include -I. -c LibTachyonDisplayDevice.C -o ../SOLARIS2/LibTachyonDisplayDevice.o
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `LibTachyonDisplayDevice.o'
>
> I have checked LibTachyonDispalyDevice.C (and it's correpsonding header
> file) and the above parameters were not declared anywhere. Any help ?
>
> I tried running the precompiled binaries but it complains about
> 'librt.so.1' missing. So I tried on Solaris 2.7 machine which had
> librt.so.1 but same errors as above. When I tried on 2.8 machine 'vmd
> --help' gave the following error:
>
> ld.so.1: /homes/sekhar/reddyg/vmd/lib/vmd_SOLARIS2: fatal: relocation
> error: file /homes/sekhar/reddyg/vmd/lib/vmd_SOLARIS2: symbol
> sunOglCurrentContext: referenced symbol not found
> Killed
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Prabhakar Reddy Gudla
> Doctoral Candidate
>
> Model Analysis Lab
> Biological Resources Engineering
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD, 20742.
>
> tel: 301-405-0109 (o)
> : 301-982-7148 (r)
> fax: 301-314-9023
>
> email: reddyg at umd dot edu
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

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