[4661] in testers
Re: Pro-Engineer won't run on 9.0 Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed May 23 16:39:15 2001
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:39:06 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200105232039.QAA06587@indian-burial-ground-pet-store.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
CC: testers@mit.edu, ajfox@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[4609] in testers"
Sorry this got dropped on the floor for so long. I looked into
it today; here's what I found out.
Sun no longer supports XGL graphics as of Solaris 8, so there are
packages for it on the Solaris 8 installation media.
I talked with Abby about this, and suggested that she find out if
the vendor has updated binaries for Solaris 8 that don't rely on XGL; I
also noticed this in the ptc locker:
(from /mit/ptc/ptc_v2000i2/distrib/sun4x_57/ptc/proe2000i2/bin/proe2000i2)
if ($mc == sun4_solaris) then
if ( !(-e /opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xgl/lib/libxgl.so) ) then
set xgl_stub = "${PRO_DIRECTORY}/${PRO_MACHINE_TYPE}/xglstub"
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${xgl_stub}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
endif
endif
which suggests they have a stub shard object if xgl isn't available,
which we don't seem to have installed.
Abby said she would look into this as well.
I also verified that the Solaris 7 XGL packages would install on
Solaris 8 and cause our current pro/engineer to run. Abby said she
would talk to the vendor before asking us to install these in the
release. If you need to install them locally, you can do so with:
# become root
cd /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/sun4x_57/install/cdrom
foreach i (`ls | grep xgl`)
pkgadd -d . $i
end
and then hit "y" a lot.
The packages are pretty self-contained (they install under /opt) so
getting them into the release past beta shouldn't be a very big deal, if
we need to do that.
Garry
