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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 17:03:07 CST

Rich,
  Show me your configuration options, it looks to me like
you may not have compiled with the right combination of
configuration options. In particular the "Starting VMD text interpreter..."
message indicates to me that Tcl didn't startup and you fell through
to a default catch-all case that's basically a stub text interpreter
we only ever use for testing purposes.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
 
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:45:07PM -0800, Rich Cook wrote:
> Hello again,
> I got CVS 1.8.8a6 to build on AIX, but it now hangs in the main event
> loop with no window.
>
> rcook_at_up041 (src): vmd
> Info) VMD for AIX5_64, version 1.8.8a6 (December 17, 2009)
> Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> Info) Multithreading available, 1 CPU detected.
> Info) Free system memory: 6187MB (19%)
> Info) Starting VMD text interpreter...
>
> (hang)
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks.
>
> On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:14 PM, John Stone wrote:
>
> >
> >Rich,
> > For CVS builds the easiest thing to do is put a copy of your
> >vmd/lib directory from the tarball source into your cvs area
> >and use that. We don't currently put the lib directory into
> >CVS due to the large file sizes and issues that would create.
> >
> >Regarding the vmd_initial_tcl error you're getting sounds
> >like a compiler bug to me. If you look at vmd.C, you can
> >see that vmd_initialize_tcl() is quite obviously in the code.
> >I have one suggestion for you to try though, try changing this line:
> > const char *argv0 = vmd_initialize_tcl(argv[0]);
> >to this:
> > const char *argv0 = vmd_initialize_tcl((const char *) argv[0]);
> >
> >If that cures the problem then some compiler engineer at IBM
> >needs a boot in the rear, otherwise I'm not sure why it is
> >complaining.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:33:15PM -0800, Rich Cook wrote:
> >>I tried to build from source on AIX, but it has problems. There is
> >>no
> >>pdflatex command on AIX, which I worked around by faking it up for
> >>now, but then there is a part of my build where I try to build SURF
> >>and there is no longer a surf directory in vmd. Is that OK?
> >>Apparently there are some different build instructions for CVS... can
> >>you point me to them?
> >>
> >>So I just kept going, and the build fails here:
> >>
> >>xlC -D_H_ACCESS=1 -DAIXUSEPERFSTAT -DARCH_AIX5_64 -DVMDORBITALS -
> >>DVMDWITHORBITALS -DVMDWITHCARBS -DVMDPOLYHEDRA -DVMDSURF -DVMDMSMS -
> >>DVMDFIELDLINES -DVMDPBCSMOOTH -DVMDSTATICPLUGINS -I../plugins/
> >>include -I../plugins/AIX5_64/molfile -I. -c vmd.C -o ../AIX5_64/
> >>vmd.o
> >>Compiling vmd.C --> vmd.o ...
> >>"vmd.C", line 261.23: 1540-0274 (S) The name lookup for
> >>"vmd_initialize_tcl" did not find a declaration.
> >>"vmd.C", line 407.3: 1540-0274 (S) The name lookup for
> >>"vmd_finalize_tcl" did not find a declaration.
> >>
> >>
> >>On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Rich Cook wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thanks, seems straightforward, unless there is a different source
> >>>layout or other gotchas -- I'm certainly conversant with CVS
> >>>
> >>>On Dec 16, 2009, at 1:49 PM, John Stone wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Richard,
> >>>>I've added your VMD CVS access, let me know if you need
> >>>>any help using it.
> >>>>
> >>>>Cheers,
> >>>>John Stone
> >>>>vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >>>>
> >>>>On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:49:51PM -0600, Web Form wrote:
> >>>>>Richard Cook <rcook_at_llnl.gov>
> >>>>>requests anonymous CVS access to VMD because
> >>>>>In order to build on AIX
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> >>>>Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >>>>University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >>>>Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> >>>>WWW: http://**www.**ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>/* A function that takes a single integer argument and returns
> >>>a pointer to a function that takes two integer arguments and
> >>>returns a floating-point number. */
> >>>float (*func2(int a))(int, int);
> >>>Rich Cook
> >>>rcook_at_llnl.gov
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>/* A function that takes a single integer argument and returns
> >> a pointer to a function that takes two integer arguments and
> >> returns a floating-point number. */
> >>float (*func2(int a))(int, int);
> >>Rich Cook
> >>rcook_at_llnl.gov
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >--
> >NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> > WWW: http://*www.*ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> >
>
>
> /* A function that takes a single integer argument and returns
> a pointer to a function that takes two integer arguments and
> returns a floating-point number. */
> float (*func2(int a))(int, int);
> Rich Cook
> rcook_at_llnl.gov
>
>
> 

-- 
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078