Delivered-To: glimpse@silliac.cs.arizona.edu Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:37:09 +1000 (EST) From: Stuart Prescott To: glimpse@cs.arizona.edu Subject: Compiling glimpse4.11 on DEC OSF Sender: owner-glimpse@cs.arizona.edu Hi! I've just had a _wonderful_ experience trying to compile glimpse411 on a DEC alpha running OSF1 V3.0/347 Basically, the dirent.h system header either has a syntax error, or is corrupt... Anyway, I munged the Makefile for the compress/ directory to -nostdinc -I. -I/usr/include thus allowing me to put my own dirent.h in the compress directory and (hopefully) get it to work. I ended up using the dirent.h (and the files it includes) from a linux2.0 system (attached) with a few modifications so that it would work: linux/limits.h was made a 0 length file linux/dirent.h had a line commented out (see source) Anyway.... just thought this might add to the glimpse knowledge base.... (BTW I had the same problems with the Glimpse410 source, and the glimpse4x binaries that I tried to use generated loader errors on this box.... since they were made on an OSF1 V4) Also, I think my directive --prefix=/pub/www was ignored by the conf script -- the makefile still had the /usr/local in it. I'm just lucky that the prefix isn't compiled in, like on some programs! Hope this is of help! Stuart | ''~`` | ( o o ) +------------------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.----------------------------+ | Stuart Prescott Y.S.A. Sydney | | s.prescott@ysa.org.au P.O. Box 5 | | Pennant Hills 2120 | | Young Scientists of Australia http://www.ysa.org.au/ | | "Promoting Science to the Youth of Australia" | | .oooO | | ( ) Oooo. | +---------------------------\ (----( )------------------------------+ | \_) ) / | (_/ (Ed note: Here are the relevant files: http://webglimpse.net/developers/usernotes/glimpse-includes-osf3_0.tar.gz --G)