[Radiance-general] Re: Compilation on Solaris 8

[Greg Ward]

Hi Stephane,

You should generally ignore warning messages from the Radiance 
compilations -- fatal errors and missing binaries are the real concern.  
In the case of Solaris, there is a problem with the "install" program 
used by the TIFF library, which I have not been able to manage to work 
around.  The reason that none of the picture processing tools got 
installed was because of the failure in the src/px directory to make 
ra_tiff and normtiff, which depend on the TIFF library.

The solution to this problem is to change to the src/px/tiff/libtiff 
directory and run "make install", then manually move the libtiff.a 
program to the ../../lib directory like so:

	mv libtiff.a ../../lib

Then, pop up to the px directory and rerun "rmake install" like so:

	rmake install

That should install the picture filters.  I wish I knew how to fix the 
TIFF library, but the install script is horribly complicated and uses 
the Bourne shell, which is something of a mystery to me....

-Greg