[Radiance-general] Radiance 4 can't be installed correctly on Mac OS X

[Ji Zhang]

Dear Thomas and John, Thank you very much for your detailed advises! I think
this is a rookie mistake.

Ji



On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Thomas Bleicher
<tbleicher at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Ji
>
> First of all if you don't have a compelling reason to install Radiance from
> source I wouldn't do it. Greg provides binaries for OS X which work just
> fine and don't require you to fiddle with compilers.
>
>  On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Ji Zhang <hope.zh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Radiance experts,
>> I can't install radiance 4 correctly on a Macbook Pro (OS X 10.6.7):
>> I downloaded Radiance 4 from:
>> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/dist/rad4R0all.tar.gz
>> I unzip the file as a folder "ray".
>>
>> I use the following command to install:
>> sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib
>> sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/ray
>> cd ~/ray
>> sudo ./makeall install clean
>>
>
> You should also create a folder "/usr/local/bin" for the binaries if you go
> with the defaults. That's where the script would try to copy the binaries to
> after the build.
>
> However, I got the following errors during installation:
>>
>>
>>         RADIANCE 4.0 INSTALLATION
>>
>> This script rebuilds all of the Radiance programs and installs
>> them on your system.  You should read the file README before running
>> this script.  You can type ^C (followed by return) at any time to abort.
>>
>> You must first answer the following questions.
>>
>> What is your preferred editor [vi]?
>> Where do you want the executables [/usr/local/bin]?
>>
>
> If you wanted a non-standard path for your installation you can specify it
> here. I. e. you could use a folder in your home directory.
>
>
>> [...]
>
>
>
>> Where do you want the library files [/usr/local/lib/ray]?
>
>  Install library files now [n]? y
>> Copying library files to /usr/local/lib/ray... Done.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> New rmake command -- running "makeall clean"...
>> ~/ray/src/common ~/ray/src
>> In directory common...
>> make: Command not found.
>>
>
> As John wrote you're missing the developer tools from the Xcode bundle. You
> can install these from the CD or download from Apple.
>
>
>> [...]
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/rmake: line 2: exec: make: not found
>> ~/ray/src
>> There were some errors.
>>
>>
>> It seems no Radiance commands are installed in
>> /usr/local/lib, and I have to use sudo cp * /usr/bin to manually copy the
>> precompiled Radiance executables (downloaded from
>> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/dist/rad4R0_macosx.tar.gz) into /usr/bin.
>
>
> You can keep the Radiance tools in "/usr/bin" but it seems a bit messy to
> mix them up with all the OS X system binaries. I prefer to use
> "/usr/local/bin"
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
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