[GRASS5] Re: Display Driver Updates

[Moritz Lennert]

Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
>> I've just committed a substantial restructuring of the display
>> drivers. The actual code hasn't changed much, but there has been quite
>> a lot of re-organisation. Please test any d.* modules which you are
>> familiar with.
>>
>> The most significant code change is that the driver library no longer
>> provides a main() function, and doesn't expect the driver to export
>> specific symbols. Instead, each driver has its own "stub" main
>> function which calls LIB_main(), passing a table of pointers to the
>> actual driver functions.
>>
>> This eliminates the assumptions regarding the behaviour of the linker.
>> It should be possible to build the driver library as a dynamic library
>> on all platforms which support dynamic libraries.
>>
>> I haven't updated the HTMLMAP driver, so it won't build any more.
>> AFAIK, it wasn't being used due to the fact that d.vect uses
>> G_plot_area rather than R_polygon_abs, which doesn't work with the
>> HTMLMAP driver.
> 
> 
> I just updated my cvs tree and recompiled, and now I cannot start a 
> monitor anymore:
> 
> d.mon start=x0
> Could not execute monitor: No such file or directory
> No socket to connect to for monitor <x0>.
> Problem selecting x0. Will try once more
> No socket to connect to for monitor <x0>.
> 

I also cannot launch gis.m anymore:

gis.m
Could not execute monitor: No such file or directory

Moritz