> should I be concerned about the fact that installing libX11 and libX11-devel > seems to have been sufficient in order to eliminate the X11-related > compilation errors?
No. There’s probably a symlink that’s covering that. > Also, our application uses Radiance in headless mode (no UI). > Am I right in thinking that whilst installing X11 is necessary in order to > get a clean build, many of the resulting binaries can be run without X11. > E.g. am I right in thinking that I can run oconv and rtrace without X11? > That’s correct. If you want to use any of the X11 programs remotely, you can run an X server on the system you are accessing your Amazon system from. > Is there some resource that can be used to determine which Radiance binaries > rely on X11 and which don't? Mmmm…”ldd” will probably tell you, if the build script uses shared libraries. But only the programs that have graphical interfaces use X11 anyway. -- Randolph M. Fritz, Lighting Design and Simulation +1 206 659-8617 || rmfri...@gmail.com <mailto:rmfri...@panix.com> > On Apr 5, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Philip Schwarz > <philip.johann.schw...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > should I be concerned about the fact that installing libX11 and libX11-devel > seems to have been sufficient in order to eliminate the X11-related > compilation errors? > > I expected to also have to change the -L option to point to /usr/lib64 in > the following > > set mach="-Dlinux -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib > -I/usr/include/X11 -DNOSTEREO" > > That's because I don't have a /usr/X11R6/lib directory (but I have some X11 > files in /usr/lib64 instead, due to having installed libX11). > I didn't expect to have to edit the -I option because I do have a > /usr/include/X11 directory, due to having installed libX11-devel. > > Thoughts? > > Also, our application uses Radiance in headless mode (no UI). > Am I right in thinking that whilst installing X11 is necessary in order to > get a clean build, many of the resulting binaries can be run without X11. > > E.g. am I right in thinking that I can run oconv and rtrace without X11? > > Is there some resource that can be used to determine which Radiance binaries > rely on X11 and which don't? > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > Philip Schwarz > > > _______________________________________________ > Radiance-dev mailing list > Radiance-dev@radiance-online.org > https://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev
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