[CM] Grace and Fomus on F 14

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Fri Mar 18 13:35:29 PDT 2011 

On 03/18/2011 12:42 PM, David Psenicka wrote:
> I just noticed you're compiling fomus 0.1.12, which is old and doesn't
> have the iostreams fix... Have you tried compiling fomus 0.1.15 with the
> distro's boost libraries and headers? 0.1.15 has bug fixes and should
> work fine with recent versions of Grace (you shouldn't have to recompile
> Grace).

I'll release a 0.1.15 alpha package in Planet CCRMA for Fedora 14 asap 
(I'm building it now).
Hopefully that will fix the problems with Grace.
-- Fernando


> If you stick with 0.1.12 then you'll have to have two versions
> of Boost on your system to run an old version of the software.
>
> If you are compiling against a local Boost install, make sure bjam
> installed the header files in the right place (it likes to place them in
> a directory that looks something like
> /usr/local/include/boost/boost_1_39 and they actually need to be in
> /usr/local/include/boost). The configure script might also be confused
> if you have two versions of boost on your system, I have to try and
> compile against a local boost install to see what it's trying to do and
> how to make it find the right libraries.
>
> -David
>
> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:29 -0400, Bill Sack wrote:
>> i'm trying a local install of boost 1.39
>> did ./bootstrap and ./bjam install
>> this is the output of ./configure in fomus
>>
>> checking for boostlib>= 1.35... yes
>> checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
>> checking for -l... no
>> checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
>> configure: error: Could not link against  !
>>
>> am i missing some part of installing boost? or missing a configure flag?
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM, David Psenicka<dpsenick at gmail.com  <mailto:dpsenick at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>> >  The error message has to do with Boost's iostream library which changed
>> >  quite a bit with version 1.44 (including the API, which would cause an
>> >  undefined symbol error if fomus is linking with the wrong library
>> >  version)...    I think recompiling with the correct Boost library headers
>> >  should fix the problem.    The recent fomus release should compile with Boost
>> >  versions before or after 1.44 (though I haven't tested 1.46 yet).    I'll try
>> >  compiling with boost 1.44 on my machine and see if I run into any problems.
>> >
>> >  -David
>> >
>> >  On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 10:18 -0500, Heinrich Taube wrote:
>> >
>> >  sorry its not working for you. i forwarded your message to david
>> >  psenicka, perhaps he has some idea.
>> >  fwiw  im using boost_1_45_0/  . i know that boost_1_39_0/ also worked
>> >  for me. its probably not that hard to uninstall/reinstall boost it
>> >  that is actually the issue.
>> >
>> >
>> >  On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Bill Sack wrote:
>> >
>> >>  i did try the new beta - everything seems to work great except fomus.
>> >>  i've done a bit more googling and discovered that this is a
>> >>  longstanding (since 12/10) unresolved problem with fomus and f14 -
>> >>  there's a message on the planetccrma list about it that i somehow
>> >>  overlooked when it was current.
>> >>
>> >>  the issue has nothing to do with Grace or cm at all - i get the same
>> >>  error message trying to run one of the fomus examples in the
>> >>  documentation (i.e.: outside of cm).
>> >>
>> >>  i still suspect that it has something to do with the version of boost
>> >>  but i don't have the patience to downgrade and recompile right now.
>> >>
>> >>  b
>> >>
>> >>  On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Heinrich Taube<taube at uiuc.edu  <mailto:taube at uiuc.edu>>
>> >>  wrote:
>> >>>  i just tested fomus 0.1.15 in all the betas I can (osx win32 and
>> >>>  ubuntu)
>> >>>  using the complex"prime harmonics"  example at the end of the
>> >>>  example file
>> >>>  you get by selecting:
>> >>>          Help>Examples>Scheme>Fomus
>> >>>
>> >>>  the example ran eveywhere (really fast on osx and ubuntu!),
>> >>>  although on
>> >>>  ubuntu i did not get the pdf viewer opening automatically with the
>> >>>  computed
>> >>>  score.
>> >>>
>> >>>  so im not sure what the issue on your fedora, are you using the
>> >>>  fedora beta1
>> >>>  i made today?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>  On Mar 17, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Bill Sack wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>  i built fomus 1.15 here too and got the same crash when trying the
>> >>>>  example. i wonder if this has something to do with the version of
>> >>>>  boost that's packaged for f14?
>> >>>>  looks like 1.39 on f 12
>> >>>>  and 1.44 on f14
>> >>>>
>> >>>>  maybe i'll try a locally downgraded version of boost and see what
>> >>>>  happens.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>  do i need to do something about the lock file or not? maybe i could
>> >>>>>  disable
>> >>>>>  this on linux , but running two version of grace probably isnt a
>> >>>>>  good
>> >>>>>  idea
>> >>>>>  as they will both write to the preference file...
>> >>>>
>> >>>>  would it be hard to have a message echoed to the shell if there's a
>> >>>>  permission issue or some other conflict with the lockfile?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>  On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Bill Sack wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>  hello again,
>> >>>>>>  i'm trying to get Fomus going with Grace on fedora 14. i've
>> >>>>>>  tried the
>> >>>>>>  planetccrma packages (cm-grace and fomus), and i've tried a
>> >>>>>>  locally
>> >>>>>>  compiled version of fomus-1.12. In both cases the programs show
>> >>>>>>  up in
>> >>>>>>  the Grace splash screen, but evaluating any of the examples
>> >>>>>>  crashes
>> >>>>>>  Grace with this error echoed:
>> >>>>>>  /usr/bin/Grace: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/fomus/lilyout.so:
>> >>>>>>  undefined symbol: _ZN5boost9iostreams22file_descriptor_sourceC1Eib
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>  i found an earlier message on this list from D. Phillips with
>> >>>>>>  the same
>> >>>>>>  error report, though in his case the problem was apparently
>> >>>>>>  resolved
>> >>>>>>  with a reinstall - no such luck in my case.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>  thanking you in advance,
>> >>>>>>  b
>> >>>>>>
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