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IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

Running into problems trying to update:

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

From the ChangeLog (which you should always read):

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Sorry, but not upgrading radlib was a big problem...

Now you have another MacOSX "opportunity" - a quick google search on that error message brings up a whole slew of links for applications other than wview (such as MySQL) which have had that problem on Mac. Maybe you can find a solution...

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-273.html

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

No, Mac OSX is the problem. How does installing on a clean system prove anything other than Mac OSX is goofy right out of the box?

Again, do the google search. It isn't a radlib problem, it is a static linking problem on Mac OSX when using libtool, which is new for radlib, but not for many other libraries/applications. The Mac OSX problems aren't new either...

Did you look at: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-273.html?

Does that look like a radlib problem to you? Geez!

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

What I said was that not upgrading radlib to 2.5.0 was a big problem - there can be more than one problem.

Do you see 200 lines of errors now? No you don't because you have now upgraded radlib as the release notes indicate.

Do you have an additional problem which is related to Mac OSX and the static linking of libraries using libtool? Yes you do.

Did radlib just convert to libtool for C++ shared library compatibility? Yes it did.

Does it build on FreeBSD, the genesis of Darwin? Yes it does.

Are there ample documented examples of this problem on the web for Mac OSX which have nothing to do with radlib or wview? Yes there are.

Are there always trade-offs in life? Yes there are. Mine is to move forward with radlib for other purposes besides pleasing 5 Mac OSX users who use it for wview and will not do the legwork to figure out how to get static linking with libtool-generated libraries to work on their OS. Yours is to use Mac OSX and loose having a consistent unix platform but rather some goofy hybrid.

I want this to work for you Mac guys, but I don't have time every time radlib/wview exhales a little bit differently figuring out how goofy MacOSX is going to react to it. I build and test them on linux and FreeBSD. And if Apple didn't have to muck so much with FreeBSD to call it Darwin, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I will try to look at it sometime in the future, but if you want it soon, do the research. There are two ways to look at Mac OSX: as a sexier Windows or as another unix variant. radlib, wview and I see it as a unix variant. Meaning if you are going to use them, you must be willing to learn how your system works and how to tune it/diagnose it. Not a windows type who thinks there are mice running on wheels inside. I'm not saying that is you, but I do suggest you not resist digging into Darwin and unix.

chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

just to pipe up.. as an experience MacOS X user there shouldn't be any problem getting radlib happy with MacOS X and the library linker. I don't have time to get into looking now, but in the future I'll try to lend a hand. In the meantime I would say don't lose heart, MacOS X isn't that quirky when it comes to compiling/building UNIX stuff... the quirks that it does have are, usually, very well known by now and *someone* out there has fix them.

You find the answer on google, if I don't find it first.

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Maybe I found a way around it for you...

Download http://www.wviewweather.com/wview-1.8.4p1.tar.gz
and give it a try.

Of course it still requires radlib 2.5.0.

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

It's up and running: <http://www.pcrguam.com/img/index.html>

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

Hi Mark:

htmlgend crashed at midnight:

Nov 12 00:00:11 G5-Tower htmlgend[195]: <2141212188> : htmlgend: recv sig 4: exiting!
Nov 12 00:00:11 G5-Tower crashdump[6384]: htmlgend crashed
Nov 12 00:00:11 G5-Tower crashdump[6384]: crash report written to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/htmlgend.crash.log

This is the crash log output:

Host Name: G5-Tower
Date/Time: 2005-11-12 00:00:10.523 +1000
OS Version: 10.4.3 (Build 8F46)
Report Version: 3

Command: htmlgend
Path: /opt/local/bin/htmlgend
Parent: launchd [1]

Version: ??? (???)

PID: 195
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (0x0002)
Code[0]: 0x00000002
Code[1]: 0xbffff498

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 <<00000000>> 0xbffff498 0 + -1073744744
1 htmlgend 0x0001c594 generateRainMonth + 540 (images.c:1367)
2 htmlgend 0x0000a268 htmlmgrGenerate + 296 (htmlMgr.c:645)
3 htmlgend 0x00009648 htmlDataState + 144 (htmlStates.c:652)
4 librad.0.dylib 0x000d72a4 radStatesProcess + 48 (radstates.c:161)
5 htmlgend 0x00007ec8 msgHandler + 68 (html.c:259)
6 librad.0.dylib 0x000d0bf0 procQueueReadCB + 252 (radprocess.c:210)
7 librad.0.dylib 0x000d0e18 radProcessWait + 420 (radprocess.c:517)
8 htmlgend 0x00008a04 main + 2472 (html.c:697)
9 htmlgend 0x0000204c _start + 344 (crt.c:272)
10 htmlgend 0x00001ef0 start + 60

Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000bffff498 srr1: 0x100000000208f930 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x44000428 xer: 0x0000000000000000 lr: 0x0000000000011970 ctr: 0x00000000bffff490
r0: 0x0000000000011970 r1: 0x00000000bfffdd00 r2: 0x0000000000023468 r3: 0x00000000bfffdd68
r4: 0x0000000000026b8c r5: 0x000000000000000b r6: 0x000000000000000c r7: 0x00000000000007d5
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x00000000000000f8 r10: 0x0000000000000004 r11: 0x0000000001802350
r12: 0x00000000bffff490 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x0000000000000018 r22: 0x00000000bfffde88 r23: 0x0000000000059c74
r24: 0x00000000000002a1 r25: 0x000000000008a7fc r26: 0x000000000000001c r27: 0x00000000bffff490
r28: 0x000000000000000e r29: 0x00000000bfffdd68 r30: 0x0000000000078574 r31: 0x000000000001187c

Binary Images Description:
0x1000 - 0x27fff htmlgend /opt/local/bin/htmlgend
0xce000 - 0xdbfff librad.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/librad.0.dylib
0x205000 - 0x220fff libgd.2.dylib /opt/local/lib/libgd.2.dylib
0x28e000 - 0x2c3fff libpng.3.dylib /opt/local/lib/libpng.3.dylib
0x2cb000 - 0x2e7fff libjpeg.62.dylib /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.62.dylib
0x2ee000 - 0x341fff libfreetype.6.dylib /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
0x491000 - 0x4c6fff libpng12.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libpng12.0.dylib
0x4ce000 - 0x4dffff libz.1.dylib /opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe54fff dyld 44.2 /usr/lib/dyld
0x90000000 - 0x901b3fff libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x9020b000 - 0x9020ffff libmathCommon.A.dylib /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x9108c000 - 0x9109afff libz.1.dylib /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
0x913ac000 - 0x913b4fff libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
0x913b9000 - 0x913d9fff libmx.A.dylib /usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib
0x92cfc000 - 0x92deafff libiconv.2.dylib /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib

Thanks,

Paul

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

OK, I may have found something on this...

Let's try a different images.c tonight to see how it goes:

Access http://www.wviewweather.com/images.c

From your browser choose "Save Page As" and save it as images.c somewhere you can find it easily

Then copy it to your wview-1.8.4p1/htmlgenerator directory over the existing file

Then from the wview-1.8.4p1 directory:
sudo /sbin/SystemStarter stop "wview"
sudo make clean
sudo make install
sudo /sbin/SystemStarter start "wview"

Try to get that up and going before midnight so we can see how it goes tonight.

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Nevermind that, just download http://www.wviewweather.com/wview-1.8.4p2.tar.gz and give that a try.

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

The image file swap did the trick last night, but I've update to wview-1.8.4p2 this morning nonetheless.

BTW, I like the fact that the wview "counter" (i.e. number of days, hours, etc.) does not reset with every computer restart. Is that by design?

Thanks,
Paul