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Khoros 2.0.2 patch updated for ELF shared libraries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Sep 25 21:11:42 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 11:29:02 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@Dent.MED.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
Subject: Khoros 2.0.2 patch updated for ELF shared libraries
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Keywords: Khoros, patch, shared libraries, DLL, Linux, ELF, image processing
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Linux shared libraries for the Khoros 2.0.2 development release
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Wolfram Gloger (wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de)
September 1995
INTRODUCTION
The image processing system Khoros 2.0.2 ('K2') is available for ftp
as a 'developers release' (sources only) from ftp.khoros.unm.edu (and
other sites, see the newsgroup comp.soft-sys.khoros for comprehensive
FAQ documents). It will compile without changes on Linux, but take up
more than 100MB of disk space when all binaries are statically linked
(which is the default).
This patch was created to generate Khoros shared libraries on Linux,
for both ELF and a.out setups. If this is greek to you, ELF is a
different, more advanced binary format than the 'traditional' a.out,
with inherent support for shared libraries. ELF is now (9/95) still
in its early stages of use (several BETA versions of ELF Linux
distributions are available), but it is expected that it will
completely replace a.out in the future.
Support for ELF shared libraries in this patch is exactly like on
comparable systems like Solaris. On the other hand, support for Linux
a.out shared libraries is limited to the most important K2 toolboxes:
'bootstrap', 'data services' and 'design'. Adding jump files etc. for
the other toolboxes seems like a waste of time to me, since the saving
in binary disk usage would be minimal.
CHANGES COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS VERSION
Support for ELF. You need all ELF development tools (ld.so-1.7.x,
gcc-2.7.x, libc-5.x, binutils-2.5.x, the flex library libfl.a in ELF)
and XFree86-3.1.2 in ELF for this to work.
WHAT AND WHERE TO GET - COPYRIGHT ISSUES
khoros2.0.2-lxELF.tar.gz at
sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/Incoming (now) pub/Linux/X11/xapps (later)
tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/Linux/ports (hopefully soon)
ftp.khoros.unm.edu:pub/khoros/contrib/ports (maybe)
ftp.e20.physik.tu-muenchen.de:pub/K2 (probably soon)
ftp.lrz-muenchen.de:/local/khoros/khoros-2.0/khoros-2.0/contrib/ports
(probably soon)
Khoros 2.0 comes with its own license. My patches are copyrighted and
freely distributable according to the GNU public license. In
particular, I assume no responsibility of any kind as to the
functionality of K2 compiled with these patches.
HOW TO APPLY THE PATCH
First unpack Khoros as described in the 'release/install' file found
on K2 ftp servers. Unpack khoros2.0.2-lxELF.tar.gz, e.g. in the K2
home directory. This will create a 'linux' directory. Before running
bin/installit, go to the Khoros 2.0.2 home directory and apply the
patch with:
% KHOROS_HOME=/your/path/to/K2; export KHOROS_HOME
% cd $KHOROS_HOME
% patch -p0 < .../linux/patch.Linux
If you are using a.out, unpack the jump files with:
% tar xvf .../linux/jump.tar
HOW TO INSTALL TOOLBOXES
As described in the K2 docs,
% PATH=$KHOROS_HOME/bin:$PATH
% installit
should compile the bootstrap toolbox, which is really the base of the
system. If you are using a.out, don't forget to set
CreateKhorosSharedLibraries to NO in the Site.linux file (editing this
file is part of the 'installit' procedure). For the other toolboxes
and their installation, see the K2 docs.
Good luck with Khoros,
Wolfram.
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