Dear Managers,
Please, excuse me for the delay in sending this summary.
Thanks a lot for all of you who have answered:
Carlos Sanchez <csanchez_at_cirp.es>
Richard Wood Richard_WOOD_at_paribas.com
Pat Villani <patv_at_unx.dec.com>
Mike Iglesias <iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu>
My original problem was that, although my alpha is running DU4.0, I got following
error message trying to install PHIGS4.1:
***** INSTALLATION ERROR for PHRTO410 *****
Missing Dependencies, Requires Digital UNIX V3.0 or higher
(I enclose my original posting at the end of this mail).
Two solutions were sent to me:
1) "You probably need PHIGS v4.2, which came out on the July 96 CD set."
Unfortunately I do not have the July 96 set at reach, so I could not try this one,
although I will install the 4.2 version as soon as I get grab it
2) Pat Villani got me right. I thought that there was a problem with the
setld comand which did not co the correct OS version check. But this is
"usually done in an SCP file."
Pat gave me an anofficial solution to work-around this problem and install the
package.
"Assuming that the PHIGS package does run under DU 4.0, what you can do is copy
the distribution to a directory and edit the files PHRTO410.scp and
PHRTO410.scp. Look for the error message containing "Requires Digital UNIX
V3.0" and change the script to correctly check the OS version. Then use setld
to load the package by specifying the -D option with the name of the directory
that you copied your distribution into."
In fact, in the file PHRTO410.scp there is a subroutine that evaluates the
dependency requirements. The line in question reads:
DepEval OSFBASE3[0-9][0-9] ||
so it was only checking for DU3.0-DU3.2G, and does not allow for the DU4.x.
I changed this number and succeeded in the installation of PHIGS4.1.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Monica
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Original posting
>Dear Managers,
>
>I'am puzzled with this problem. We have an Alphastation 500 with DU4.0.
>We had a lot of problems compiling user codes which were running under DU3.2D.
>For this reason we tryed installing and uninstalling Fortran compilers and math libraries
>until we got them running.
>
>Now I was trying to install PHIGS (run timpe) on the system (which I had done but was one
>of those packages which got unintalled in the process of solving the compiling problems).
>But I get a very puzzling error message:
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>You are installing the following optional subsets:
>
> Digital PHIGS V4.1 Manual Pages
> Digital PHIGS V4.1 Run-Time-Only Kit
>
>Is this correct? (y/n): y
>
>Checking file system space required to install selected subsets:
>
>File system space checked OK.
>
>2 subset(s) will be installed.
>
>Loading 1 of 2 subset(s)....
>
>***** INSTALLATION ERROR for PHRTO410 *****
>Missing Dependencies, Requires Digital UNIX V3.0 or higher
>
>setld: Installation declined by subset control program (PRE_L). "Digital PHIGS V4.1
>Run-Time-Only Kit" (PHRTO410) will not be loaded.
>
>Loading 1 of 2 subset(s)....
>
>***** INSTALLATION ERROR for PHRMAN410 *****
>Missing Dependencies, Requires PHRTO410 kit be installed
>
>setld: Installation declined by subset control program (PRE_L). "Digital PHIGS V4.1
>Manual Pages" (PHRMAN410) will not be loaded.
>
>0 of 2 subset(s) installed successfully.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>Now, as our operating system IS DU4.0, setld does not give the right error message. I have
>been browsing the documentation of the PHIGS but have not found the possible missing
>dependencies. Has anyone any idea or has had this problem or knows how to find out what is
>really missing?
>
>This is the output of "setld -i"
<text omitted>
>Thanks for any help,
>Monica
>
Received on Fri Aug 30 1996 - 18:52:23 NZST