[Radiance-general] x11meta issue

[Ruggiero Guida]

Thanks Greg and Rob

I added the "meta" folder from the source distribution in ray/lib/meta/ and
the problem with x11meta is gone and I can now see the output in X11. My
original installation is still in /usr/local/radiance/.

Still having one of the problems with xform though and not sure why

I am working from the folder

~/dev/radiance

I create the file things.rad in ~/dev/radiance/objects

and then I use "objline ./objects/things.rad | x11meta"

The use of "./" has solved the issue of objline not finding things.rad, but
it still complains about the file things.orig. Do i need to create this
file or it is just a warning?

Thanks
Ruggiero




On 4 October 2015 at 02:05, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm....  Unlike other "essential" library files, the meta/ folder is only
> distributed as part of the supplementary material in the "rad5R0all.tar.gz
> <http://www.radiance-online.org/download-install/radiance-source-code/latest-release/rad5R0all.tar.gz>"
> ball at:
>
>
> http://www.radiance-online.org/download-install/radiance-source-code/latest-release
>
> It lives in the ray/lib/meta/ subfolder of this distribution.  We could
> think about creating a subdirectory in the ray/src/meta directory and
> having it install from there if that makes more sense.  We should probably
> take this offline, or move it to the "dev" list.
>
> @Ruggiero - try getting the above distribution and extracting the meta
> directory onto your system, setting the MDIR environment variable
> appropriately.  Hopefully, that will fix the issue for you.  We'll work on
> this for the next package, I guess.
>
> Cheers,
> -Greg
>
> *From: *Rob Guglielmetti <rob.guglielmetti at gmail.com>
>
> *Subject: *Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue
>
> *Date: *October 3, 2015 10:50:57 AM PDT
>
>
> Thanks Greg,
>
> This vchars.mta file, is this a Radiance thing, or a system thing? The
> only references I see to this filename in all the Radiance source are in
> pexpand.c and expand.c:
>
> https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=vchars.mta
>
> I do not see the file itself. I ASSumed this was because my installers
> weren’t packaging it, but it doesn’t seem to be in the Radiance repo at
> all, at least not in the mirror. On my entire storage device, I only see
> this file in a couple of places, and they’re all locations where I had
> really old archived installations of Radiance (built with your “makeall”
> script). This makes me think this is a Radiance thing that somehow never
> got included in the mirror...
>
> -Rob
>
> From: Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> <gregoryjward at gmail.com>
> Reply: Radiance general discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
> <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
> Date: October 3, 2015 at 11:05:40 AM
>
> I don't know why xform is complaining, but the problem with x11meta *may*
> be the MDIR environment variable, which should point to the appropriate
> library directory on your system.  Mine is set to the location of:
>
> $MDIR=/usr/local/lib/ray/meta/
> export MDIR
>
> Note the trailing '/' which is very important.  Generally speaking, this
> directory sits in a "meta" subdirectory of the main Radiance library.
>
> Hope this helps!
> -Greg
>
> *From:* Rob Guglielmetti <rob.guglielmetti at gmail.com>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue
>
> *Date:* October 3, 2015 8:47:45 AM PDT
>
>
> Chris’ directory/path advice will fix errors one and three in your output
> below, but error two is unfortunately a result of the NREL binary packages
> not working correctly for x11meta. Sorry about that, I haven’t had a chance
> to sort that one out yet. Used to be, no one ever used x11meta but it
> appears lots of people are starting to pick up Axel’s tutorial which
> includes the use of that tool, so I guess I’d better get this sorted!
>
> -Rob
>
> From: Chris Kallie <kallie at umn.edu> <kallie at umn.edu>
> Reply: Radiance general discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
> <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
> Date: October 3, 2015 at 6:37:17 AM
> To: Radiance general discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>>
> <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
> Subject:  Re: [Radiance-general] x11meta issue
>
> Make sure you are in the right directory, or pointing to the right
> directory. -Chris
>
> On 10/3/15 4:40 AM, Ruggiero Guida wrote:
>
> Hi I am having issues with the x11meta command.
> If I run
>
> objline objects/things.rad | x11meta (from Alex's tutorial),  I keep
> receiving the error:
>
> xform: cannot find file "things.rad"
> fatal - cannot open file "/usr/local/lib/meta/vchars.mta", mode "r"
> xform: cannot find file "things.orig"
>
>
> - I am on Mac OSX Yosemite.
> - Last 5.0 binaries installed in default directory
> - PATH, RAYPATH set correctly
> - x11 installed from xQuarz.org
>
> I have checked other threads and it seems other people had the same issue,
> but no solution was provided.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks
> Ruggiero
>
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