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From: Steven G. J. <st...@al...> - 2000-08-30 19:54:19
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>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 |