[Radiance-general] Radiance install on Mac OS X (Jaguar)

[Rob Guglielmetti]

John An wrote:
> I am currently trying to install Radiance in XDarwin on a Macintosh 
> running Mac OSX 10.2.  I am completely new to UNIX, so my question may 
> be simplistic.  Please bare with me.  If this question is inappropriate, 
> then please let me know, and I will not fill your inboxes.

Totally appropriate.  You will find some very intelligent users on ths 
list, who gratefully don't mind the cooasional beginner question. 
Believe me, I should know.  I was a LINUX loser for years, barely able 
to copy a file to the location I wanted.  When OS X came out, it made 
life a WHOLE LOT easier....  and I'm still struggling.  Hang in there. 
May I recommend "MacOSX Unleashed" for a lot of useful info on UNIX in 
the OS X vein.

> I read Greg Ward's response to Galen Burrell, and tried following the 
> direction.

I don't have all my old email regarding this installation process, but I 
*did* install Radiance for OSX without compiling.  Twice, in fact. 
Problem is, the last time I did it was a while ago, so I forget a lot. 
I *do* need to get the 10.2 binaries going on my system since I just 
upgraded to Jaguar myself.

As a start may I suggest trying to re-copy the stuff to the correct 
locations?  Note you should drop down to a shell (load Terminal) and do 
this from the command line, and do it as root.  Type "sudo su", return. 
  You will be asked for the administrator password.  Now you can copy 
the binbaries to /usr/local/bin.  You also have to copy the library 
files, but as Greg mentioned I think if you run the makeall install the 
script will copy those files where they need to do for you, even if the 
compile procedure fails.  Doesn't matter, because you can then copy 
Greg's compiled binaries to /usr/local/bin per my instructions above. 
When you're done you chould "change back" to your normal user by typing 
sudo (username).

You also need to add that directory to your path statement in your 
.cshrc file. Again, I can give mre details as I dig up my old emails on 
this stuff, but the experts here may beat me to it because they can do 
this stuff in their sleep (which I find amazing).


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Rob Guglielmetti
rpg@rumblestrip.org
www.rumblestrip.org
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