Re: [ferret_users] Ferret 6 on Mac OS X : can I help ?

[Olivier Marti <olivier.marti@xxxxxx>]

Le 16 mars 07 à 03:46, Andy Jacobson a écrit :

> Salut Olivier,
>
> I'm sorry that I didn't see this message until today.  I have been  
> working with the PMEL ferret developers on compiling an Intel- 
> native version of ferret for OS X.  Unfortunately, I've run into a  
> snag and I don't know how to fix it.  Maybe you or someone else out  
> there can help.
>
> While OS X is built on unix, it doesn't support all of the common  
> unix features.  One feature it is lacking is "wide character"  
> internationalization libraries.  This "wchar" feature is deprecated  
> in OS X in favor of an Apple solution to the problem (see Tech Note  
> No. 2071 at http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/ 
> tn2071.html#Section13).  Unfortunately, ferret requires xgks and  
> xgks requires wchar.
>
> Interestingly, this problem has been solved in the past.  I believe  
> that fink.sourceforge.net used to offer a version of xgks, but I  
> don't know how to find out what solution was used to get it to  
> compile.  Alternatively, we could strip out the  
> internationalization support in xgks.  I'm simply too busy to give  
> this my time right now, however, so I'm getting by with Kevin  
> O'Brien's v5.7 powerpc build running via rosetta.
>
> > Andy Jacobson has probably other things to do, like a PhD thesis  
> > for instance. Any news about him ?
>
> Thanks for asking!  I'm happily working on estimating air-sea  
> carbon fluxes, now at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado.

Andy,

Sorry to answer so late, but I wanted to have a look inside before  
answering. Nice to have news from you.

I've got xgks installed on my G4 (OS X 10.4.9) through Fink. I think  
it came with CDAT.

In /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/xgks.info, you may  
find the way they compiled it. From that, I set up the following  
script :

---------
#!/bin/ksh

PREFIX=/Users/marti/Downloads/xgks-2.6
MKDIR=/Users/marti/Downloads/xgks-2.6

(export CPP_X11=/usr/X11R6/include ; export LD_X11="-L/usr/X11R6/lib - 
lX11" ; ./configure --prefix=${PREFIX} )

make CXX=cc port/all
make CXX=cc fontdb/all

mkdir -p ${MKDIR}/include ${MKDIR}/lib
/bin/cp -f port/misc/udposix.h ${PREFIX}/include/udposix.h
make CXX=cc prefix=${MKDIR} fontdb/all
make CXX=cc prefix=${MKDIR} fontdb/install

#----

this works, but it seems that not all xgks is compiled. If it is  
enough for CDAT, is it for Ferret ?

Is it worth a try ? I guess yes !!

Anyway, I'm OK to continue.


Olivier


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