what do I do with this lot....
I installed medical research toolkit from physionet.org.
To cut long story short, I need to recompile source package xview-3.2p1.4-21.1.fc8.src.rpm from page at http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/xview/src/ Please, can someone tell me what commands I need to enter to recompile this lot. The reason I need to do so is is detailed in this discussion: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfre.../msg00110.html I have been going round and round in circles. I am so near yet so far. So far, I have downloaded the src.rpm package to a working directory, entered rpm -iv xview-3.2p1.4-21.1.fc8.src.rpm In all probability, this not the thing to do. So what now? |
Here is a tutorial on how to install and build a src rpm.
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what operating system is this ?
If it is CygWin on windows then the "rpmbuild" will be of little use CygWin dose not use rpm's that src rpm is for the very OLD fedora 8 fedora 8 went end of life 5 years ago also it might be easier to just use the tarball xview-3.2p1.4-19c.tar.gz than install and set up a rpmbuild environment ( not hard but a fair amount of work ) also with the source being about 8 to 10 years old you might need to install the "compatibility" version of gcc ( an old version ) " gcc-3.3 " or called " gcc-compt" the current gcc 4.7 might not be able to be used with out hacking the program to build with it |
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there is a cygwin package of prebuilt binaries
http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/xview/cygwin/ "xview-3.2p1.4-18c-cygwin.tar.bz2" but is is from 2005 and built for win 95,98,nt,xp |
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It is interesting what you say that it is from old, dating back to 2005, and was built for win 95, 98,nt,xp. I have installed it on win7. I am currently installing cygwin on my old and redundant laptop that has win xp. Hopefully that will work. |
Tried it on xp, still same problem....
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The XView home page states "the standard Xorg server is severely incompatible with XView" which is short for "we didn't bother to make XView not call _XAllocID and we didn't update XView to the current, sane standard". I'd first check if your Cygwin X.org libX11 >= 1.1. If it is you have the choice of either downgrading it or installing the preferred Linux distribution used at the time of release (IIRC the obsolete Fedora 7). If you opt for the latter ponder usage of virtualization (VMware, Virtual Box, QEmu, etc, etc) and in the case of running obsolete Linux distribution (or other weaker "operating system") releases isolate it from your network as they're obviously security risks.
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what exactly do you need this for ?
i am betting there are modern programs to do what you need and also run on windows7 for example Cinepaint Yes it is old ( as old as xview ) but for basic work on 32 bit floating-point images it works Gmic - a terminal based graphics lib that can display images like imagemagick BUT works on singed/unsigned 16 bit and on 32 bit float or Nip2 ,the supported format list is short but if "imagemagick" can open it then it can be imported ( using a built in plugin) I do a LOT of work with imaging data from USA spacecraft ( Cassini, LRO,MRO,Messenger,and Voyager ) but i use a linux only program for that ( isis3 ) |
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Turney suggested way back in 2010, to either acquire latest binaries from cygwin, or recompile. I would like to explore these alternatives. |
one possible solution is to install CentOS 6.3 or Scientific Linux 6.3 ( or the older CentOS 5.9 )
the fedora 8 SRC rpm should be able to build on it -- NO guaranties -- just checked the OpenBuildService http://software.opensuse.org/package/xview there is a fedora 18 build https://build.opensuse.org/package/s...&package=xview but you will need to install a "home" personal software repo on fedora 18 "home:zhonghuaren" (xvieew is called "openwin" ) installing fedora 18 and using that might be WAY easier than trying to build a Microsoft Windows version or hacking a fedora 8 src rpm on centos or install a VM and do a virtual install for the unsupported fedora 8 on the VM running on win7 but getting software to install on a version of fedora that is 10 versions out of date , will not be easy . -------- fedora 8 install dvd has the OLD security keys on it and they WILL NOT work on the new security keys issued after the red hat server break ,issued for fedora 8 . and it has some old software like Firefox2 "firefox-2.0.0.19-1.fc8.i386.rpm " The current firefox is 18 -------- if you go the route of installing fedora 8 on a vm i would ask questions over at the "end of life" forum on fedoraforum -- a link -- http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=75 |
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