RE: Intall on Red Hat Linux

[Jares, Timothy]

ALMOST everything worked exactly as you suggested.  I went back, uninstalled
the mess I had made and began again as directed.  I installed the swarm and
jikes rpms successfully and downloaded the swarmapps-2.0.1 source.  I
installed the app software in 

/home/swarm/swarmapps-2.0.1

modified SWARMHOME in the Makefile and tried to build.  

The make worked fine except for warnings of the sort
/usr/bin/ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol
'__objc_class_name_GUISwarm' are not defined

Sounds like the same problem mentioned in
http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/archive/list-archive.9903/0071.html
<http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/archive/list-archive.9903/0071.html> 

A few ways to overcome this problem, including modifying ld.so.conf are
suggested.  So as to keep my install somewhat "pristine", what is the
recommended way to resolve this problem.  Also, did I do something wrong  to
get this, or is there a step missing in your last e-mail?  

It appears as though I'm getting oh so close!




Timothy E. Jares, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Finance
College of Business Administration
University of North Florida
4567 St. John's Bluff Rd.
Jacksonville, FL 32224-2645

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                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Paul Johnson [mailto:address@hidden
                Sent:   Monday, September 27, 1999 6:08 PM
                To:     address@hidden
                Subject:        Re: Intall on Red Hat Linux

                "Jares, Timothy" wrote:
                > 
                > OK.  I 'm convinced the RPMs are the way to go.  I've
never used them before
                > but after digging through the man pages went ahead and
used the command
                > 
                > rpm --  i -allfiles -vv swarmdemos-2_0_1-1_i386.rpm
                More typically, use this

                rpm -Uvh filename.

                U will upgrade a package if it already exists, or install if
it doesn't.
                To only upgrade packages currently installed, use rpm -UFvh.


                > Actually, in the end I used the above install command for
each package
                > available.  I then went to /usr/bin to run heatbugs as a
test and it core
                > dumped.  I figured it couldn't be that easy, but I really
don't know what
                > else I am supposed to do.

                I'm going to lobby Alex to give up on the swarm demos.  It
seems like
                most users have your experience.

                > 
                > I suspect  I didn't need all of the packages and could
erase them if
                > necessary.  Should I be dealing with the SRPMS stuff?  
                NO, those are needed if you want to build a new rpm, not to
install the
                one we provide.

                If not, is there a
                > step - configure or make - that I am missing?  Ultimately,
WHEN I get
                > heatbugs, etc. working, and I try to get my stuff to work
again, where is
                > SWARMHOME?

                I'm adding this to the FAQ, so I'm writing in detail not
just for your
                benefit.

                Install the swarm rpm from sfi.  

                  rpm -Uvh swarm-2.0.1.i386.rpm

                They want you to install jikes too. So do it.

                Get the swarmapps-2.0.1.tar.gz package, put it someplace
where you can
                work as a user, say
                /home/your_name/swarm/src.

                Then cd /home/your_name/swarm and type
                tar xzvf src/swarmapps-2.0.1.tar.gz

                That should open a new directory
/home/your_name/swarm/swarmapps-2.0.1. 

                Then cd to swarmapps-2.0.1 and pick a program.

                If you installed the swarm RPMs, your SWARMHOME is /usr.

                You can tell Swarm to use that home either by editing the
Makefile in
                the application directory (that's my personal favorite) or
by typing a
                shell command

                export SWARMHOME=/usr

                Then type 

                make

                and it should compile.  If you compiled heatbugs, when you
do "ls" you
                should see the file "heatbugs" and you can execute it by

                ./heatbugs


                If anybody is interested, I made some notes about Java kits
and have
                Swarm RPMS for i586 and i686 machines here
        
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.0_RPMSforRH6/

                These are not SFI approved or anything, just things I
thought were fun
                and possibly performance enhancing.  And, unlike Viagra, you
don't see
                blue after using them.

                > 
                > Oh, I almost forgot.  I think my installation should be
complete - I
                > selected install everything when I started.  I tried a
version of the rpm
                > command you specified and found the types file in that
directory.  The
                > command I used was:
                > 
                > $rpm -qf /usr/include/linux/types.h
                > kernel-headers-2.2.5-15
                > 
                > It does appear that maybe my version is slightly
older/different, but I
                > don't know if that's a big deal.
                > 
                No, I think you forgot the "make distclean" in between
configure tries. 
                That would explain the trouble you had.

                > Thanks!
                > 
                > Timothy E. Jares, Ph.D.
                > Assistant Professor of Finance
                > College of Business Administration
                > University of North Florida
                >

                -- 
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                Dept. of Political Science
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