[GRASS-dev] X11 trouble on OSX 10.5

[Michael Barton]

This sounds like sort of good news. No reason for the GUI to run in 64 bit
mode AFAICT. It might make the displays run a tiny bit faster, but most of
any display delay is on the GRASS side rendering the PPM to display in
TclTk. 

One Mac issue I need to mention. In the current cvs version (on 10.4) GRASS
help no longer is listed in my Help Library, although the GRASS addons help
IS listed. It's not a huge issue as help comes up OK from within GRASS, but
it was handy having it in the library listing too.

Michael


On 11/10/07 6:32 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> On Nov 10, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
>> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> 
>>> But now there is another problem -
>>> maybe OSX-specific. Togl can't find ANY _glX* symbols in libGL:
>>> 
>>> Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
>>>   "_glViewport", referenced from:
>>>       _Togl_EventProc in togl.o
>>>       _Togl_EventProc in togl.o
>>>   "_glXChooseVisual", referenced from:
>>>       _Togl_CreateWindow in togl.o
>>>   "_glPixelStorei", referenced from:
>>>       _Togl_DumpToEpsFile in togl.o
>>>       _Togl_DumpToEpsFile in togl.o
>> 
>> The first and last ones aren't GLX functions, they're standard OpenGL
>> functions, so it isn't just GLX that's the problem.
>> 
> Tired brain.  I saw a lot of glx in there (about a dozen or so more
> that I didn't copy-n-paste).
> 
>>> Another issue with X11/Tcltk in Leopard - gis.m won't run.  I get an
>>> error:
>>> 
>>> GRASS 6.3.cvs (spearfish60):~ > X Error of failed request:  BadMatch
>>> (invalid parameter attributes)
>>>   Major opcode of failed request:  70 (X_PolyFillRectangle)
>>>   Serial number of failed request:  2296
>>>   Current serial number in output stream:  2337
>>> 
>>> Maybe this is a problem with Tcltk 8.5?  Or the newer X11?  or both?
>>> The error is meaningless to me, and there is no crash+crashlog to
>>> help
>>> figure it out.
>> 
>> That can only be a Tk error. It's almost impossible to say what the
>> problem is; BadMatch can mean just about anything:
>> 
>>       BadMatch  Some argument or pair of arguments has the correct
>> type and
>>                 range but fails to match in some other way required
>> by the
>>                 request.
>> 
>> IIRC, X_PolyFillRectangle corresponds to XFillRectangles, which most
>> GUI toolkits use extensively.
>> 
> More info, I forgot: the GUI splash displays just before this error.
> 
> Definitely something wrong in TclTk 8.5.  The GUI runs with 8.4
> (32bits).
> 
> The reason I tried 8.5 is that 8.4 does not build 64bits on OSX
> (configure actually removes any 64bit flags you try to add).  I
> suppose the GUI itself doesn't need to run in 64bits, as long as the
> modules are 64bits they will run as such.
> 
> -----
> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
> 
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> fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not
> deign to possess - money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of
> weaklings.  And yet withal bound down by silly customs that make them
> slaves to their unhappy lot while firm in the belief that they be the
> lords of creation enjoying the only real pleasures of existence....
> 
> - the wisdom of Tarzan
> 
> 
> 

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