[Radiance-general] Regarding Radiance Installation, Qt-based rvu, and Objline issues

[Vaib]

Thank you Rob. Previously I couldn't locate the README file, but found it
now. For other readers, here is the path:

/usr/share/radiance/README.debian
/usr/share/radiance/README.gz


On 22 January 2014 04:57, Guglielmetti, Robert <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov
> wrote:

> (probably belongs on -dev, cross-posting to -general since this thread
> started there)
>
> The general idea with the Linux Radiance package NREL distributes was
> simply to provide a tarball of the executables and library files. It's not
> intended to be an "installer". The thought was that if people are using
> Linux they probably could unpack a tarball to a proper destination and make
> the environment mods mentioned in any number of howtos.
>
> That said, it would be great to offer more than that. We are working on a
> Chef recipe, in support of our OpenStudio-Radiance-on-the-cloud effort (!),
> which will be one way to easily bootstrap a Radiance box. CMake can also
> make an "install script package" of the Linux Radiance binaries, which is
> simply the tarball with a little sh wrapper that does the unarchiving. We
> used to post those to the OpenStudio website but I didn't think anyone was
> using them and they are still a big hack compared to Bernd's .deb, or our
> Chef script. Each of these have their own issues: the former is tied to
> major releases, and the latter is designed for headless installations.
>
> I have a list of things I'd like to do in the near future:
> - add files Greg added to src/util this week to CMake build system
> - support incremental versions somehow (may be totally independent of the
> CVS, it'd just be nice to tie our installers to a HEAD vintage for general
> housekeeping purposes (and Chef kinda needs this))
> - add a CMAKE_BUILD_HEADLESS target (this is also for Chef support but
> could help others)
> - dial in the linking on all packages to maximize backward compatibility;
> this seems to be the biggest problem with Linux.
> - get some reasonably reliable CMake build/test scripts together (I have
> some, but I'd like to make them more general so we could share them with
> the community)
> - (really) offer incremental HEAD releases, perhaps timed to coincide with
> NREL's OpenStudio iteration build releases every two weeks.
>
> If anyone has feedback or requests to go along with this list, let me
> know. I plan to cross all of these off by the end of February.
>
> - Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randolph M.Fritz [mailto:randolph+LD at panix.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 7:18 PM
> To: radiance-general at radiance-online.org
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Regarding Radiance Installation, Qt-based
> rvu, and Objline issues
>
> On 2014-01-21 01:25:29 +0000, Vaib said:
>
> > Thanks Randolph.
>
> You're welcome.
>
> >  Is there any documentation to properly install Radiance (latest one
> > from NREL) ? Or if you can give some hint, because I couldn't find any
> > such discussion on the web. Or my installation process mentioned in
> > the trailing is good enough. Thanks!
>
> I think once you patch up your install, that will work.
>
> There really isn't much current documentation.  Me, I'd be inclined to get
> the current cvs version from radiance-online.org and follow the
> instructions in the README, but that's a bit much if you aren't a software
> dinosaur like me.  I think one could probably create a Debian source
> package without too much trouble, since most of that work is already done,
> but I'm not sure of the procedures.
>
> Rob?
>
> Randolph
>
>
>
> >
> > Vaib
> >
> >
> > On 21 January 2014 01:54, Randolph M. Fritz
> > <randolph+LD at panix.com> wrote:
> > On 2014-01-19 21:16:38 +0000, Vaib said:
> >
> > 1. "$ rvu -o qt myScene.oct" gives me this error: rvu:
> > /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found
> > (required by rvu)
> >
> > The version of glibc NREL's release was built against is newer than the
> > one which comes with Debian Wheezy.  A procedure for installing a newer
> > glibc is given here:
> >
> >
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85505/need-to-install-glibc-2-14-on-wheezy
> >
> >
> > 2. "$ objline myScene.rad | x11meta" gives me this error: fatal -
> > cannot open file "/usr/local/lib/meta/vchars.mta", mode "r"
> >
> > It looks to me like x11meta expects files at /usr/local/lib which
> > haven't been copied there.  Check and see if that's the case.
> >
> > Randolph
> >
> >
> >
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