[Radiance-general] Strange behaviour of xform

[Terrance Mc Minn]

Downloaded and compiled Head (2012/01/23) on linux (Ubuntu 10.10)

Xform does not seem to want to work with sub files unless running as 
root - I don't understand why and have not had problem in previous versions!

Example of problem can be replicated below:
cd /tmp
mkdir test
cd test
cat > box.rad << EOF
!genbox blue_plastic box .5 .5 .5
EOF

cat > main.rad << EOF
void plastic blue_plastic
0
0
5 .1 .1 .6 .05 .1

!xform -rz 15 -t .5 .75 0 box.rad
EOF

getbbox main.rad
xform: cannot find file "box.rad"
      xmin      xmax      ymin      ymax      zmin      zmax
     1e+10    -1e+10     1e+10    -1e+10     1e+10    -1e+10

sudo getbbox main.rad
      xmin      xmax      ymin      ymax      zmin      zmax
   0.37059  0.982963      0.75   1.36237         0       0.5


If the box file is incorporated in the main.rad file such as
!genbox blue_plastic box .5 .5 .5 | xform -rz 15 -t .6 .75 0

then there is no problem with the "getbbox main.rad " running as user.

Other details:
echo $PATH
/opt/paraviewopenfoam381/bin:/home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/ubuntu-1.7.1/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt:/opt/site/1.7.1/bin/linuxGccDPOpt:/opt/openfoam171/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt:/opt/openfoam171/wmake:/opt/openfoam171/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

whereis getbbox xform
getbbox: /usr/local/bin/getbbox
xform: /usr/local/bin/xform

  echo $RAYPATH
/usr/local/lib/ray

echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

-- 

*Terrance Mc Minn
**Lecturer, Department of Architecture
Built Environment
*
*Curtin**University*
**
*Email |*t.mcminn at curtin.edu.au <a.joske at curtin.edu.au>
**
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