[Vis5d-users] Re: PPC-based LINUX support

>Is anyone successfully running VIS5D using a PowerPC-based (Macintosh G3
>or G4) version of LINUX?

Yes.  See Vis5d+ (vis5d.sourceforge.net, also linked to from the top of the
Vis5d page) for a version of Vis5d with an autoconf "configure" script that
lets it compile out of the box on PowerPC Linux.  (In fact, getting Vis5d
to run on my LinuxPPC G3 laptop was the initial motivation for me to add
this work to Vis5d).

Note that gcc-2.95.2 for PPC has a bug
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/1999-11/msg00163.html) that can cause Vis5d
to crash (typically when you try to plot an isosurface).  There is a patch
available for gcc; the easiest thing, though, is to get the latest PPC gcc
RPMs from Franz Sirl (ftp://dev.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/R5/RPMS/ppc/).

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson