[27150] in Athena Bugs
Re: [3partysw] autocad on suns? [help.mit.edu #531058]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Nov 26 16:51:49 2007
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From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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>> when a launch is attempted. The binaries are over 14 years old now. There's
>> really little more that can be said than what's in the message.
>Err, there is *a lot* more that can be said than such an error message.
I didn't say that right. What I should have said is that there is a
segmentation violation on the latest Athena releases and that at this
point we doesn't intend to devote resources to try to fix it- you're
the only person that's raised an issue with it.
>I didn't notice how to try to start autocad. But running
>
>add autocad_v13
>h.autocad
>
>seems to get me a working autocad on a Sun running in 8-bit mode
>(portnoy.mit.edu). Is "h.autocad" not the correct version?
It appears that portnoy is running 9.4.39. It's broken on all machines I have
access to (9.4.41). It must have broken at 9.4.40 or 9.4.41.
Yes. It is simply what I renamed the original autocad launch link to when
I substituted the "it no longer runs" script for it. I'll append another
sentence or two to the "doesn't work" message that users on machines
running older Athena releases can attempt to launch it as "h.autocad".
>I can open an existing DWG file and zoom around and manipulate it...
>Is there something else I should be trying?
No- you're running it.
>I think, also, when a patch release breaks a piece of software,
>sending a note to bugs (or release-team? Maybe it came up? I have
>not been following) is worth doing...
Point taken, but there has been virtually no usage within the last
year and no one has complained until now. You have a workaround (as
long as you have access to a machine running 9.4.39 or earlier) and
it's really not worth taking IS&T staff time to try to figure out
what's wrong and fix it. It will soon be gone with Athena Suns in any
case.
Alex
