Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 23:02 +, leee wrote: > On Saturday 06 Feb 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > > leee wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 Feb 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > > >> John Denker wrote: > > >> > The fact that workarounds exist for this bug seems to > > >> > be rather strong evidence that the bug e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
leee wrote: > John's 'Joe' the non-C++ programmer is a valid scenario. Implying > that the problem only occurs when people don't understand the > implications of what they're doing is like suggesting that people > who can't do their own automobile maintenance and repairs shouldn't > drive, or in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread leee
On Saturday 06 Feb 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > leee wrote: > > On Saturday 06 Feb 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > >> John Denker wrote: > >> > The fact that workarounds exist for this bug seems to > >> > be rather strong evidence that the bug exists. > >> > >> The sole fact that you're getting in troub

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Spott
leee wrote: > On Saturday 06 Feb 2010, Martin Spott wrote: >> John Denker wrote: >> > The fact that workarounds exist for this bug seems to >> > be rather strong evidence that the bug exists. >> >> The sole fact that you're getting in trouble with the way you are >> doing things on your very local

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: > No, that is not the bug I am reporting. > Beware that the word "linker" is ambiguous. ld is > different from ld.so. More precisely, /usr/bin/ld > is different from /lib/libdl.so* ... different > program, different purpose, different specifications. > > For example, I can c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 07:57:40 -0600, Curtis wrote in message : > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: > > > [ the "model view".] > > > > I never understood this view anyhow, what is it supposed to do? > > > As I recall, the point of this view was to show an external view of > the a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Csaba Halász
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: >> >> On native 64 bits systems there is no point in having a separate /lib >> and /lib64 - I certainly don't see any. Debian does provide the >> symlinks as I said. > > You can't ever think o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread leee
On Saturday 06 Feb 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > John Denker wrote: > > The fact that workarounds exist for this bug seems to > > be rather strong evidence that the bug exists. > > The sole fact that you're getting in trouble with the way you are > doing things on your very local setup doesn't prove

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Tim Moore
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Tim Moore wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM, John Denker wrote: > >> > >> On 02/06/2010 07:54 AM, Csaba Halász wrote: > >> > >> > On 64 bit systems /lib64 should really be a symlink to /lib (simila

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Curtis Olson
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: > > On native 64 bits systems there is no point in having a separate /lib > and /lib64 - I certainly don't see any. Debian does provide the > symlinks as I said. > You can't ever think of a situation where you might need 64 bit and 32 bit versio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Csaba Halász
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Tim Moore wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM, John Denker wrote: >> >> On 02/06/2010 07:54 AM, Csaba Halász wrote: >> >> > On 64 bit systems /lib64 should really be a symlink to /lib (similarly >> > for /usr/lib64) as that is the native architecture. >> > I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Curtis Olson
There is something lurking in the tile cache manager ... I haven't seen it in a while, but there's something there that breaks once in a while. Curt. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:45 AM, S Andreason wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > > I have no idea why the scenery would show up different in this view

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Tim Moore
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM, John Denker wrote: > On 02/06/2010 07:54 AM, Csaba Halász wrote: > > > On 64 bit systems /lib64 should really be a symlink to /lib (similarly > > for /usr/lib64) as that is the native architecture. > > I say copy the stuff from lib64 to lib and create the symlink.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Spott
John Denker wrote: > The fact that workarounds exist for this bug seems to > be rather strong evidence that the bug exists. The sole fact that you're getting in trouble with the way you are doing things on your very local setup doesn't prove a single bug, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user fri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread John Denker
On 02/06/2010 08:06 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: >> That does not fix the main problem. It does not fix >> the bug that I am reporting. > > The problem you reported is that the linker can't locate the library. > If it's location is defined in ld.so.conf (and after running ldconfig) > it can. No, tha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread S Andreason
Curtis Olson wrote: > I have no idea why the scenery would show up different in this view > for John ... maybe more issues of our code not being 100% compatible > with ATI hardware (or visa versa?) > It is not just the model view. All views _afterward_ are also missing the nearby scenery, and I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Curtis Olson
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: > The problem you reported is that the linker can't locate the library. > If it's location is defined in ld.so.conf (and after running ldconfig) > it can. There is a big difference between the compiler finding the library at compile time and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread John Denker
On 02/06/2010 07:54 AM, Csaba Halász wrote: > On 64 bit systems /lib64 should really be a symlink to /lib (similarly > for /usr/lib64) as that is the native architecture. > I say copy the stuff from lib64 to lib and create the symlink. That is one way of doing it. By my count there are at least

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: > On 02/06/2010 02:32 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: > >> As I see it this might actually be a problem for the Linux vendor. They >> should have added /usr/lib64 to /etc/ld.so.conf > > That does not fix the main problem. It does not fix > the bug that I am reporting. The problem you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Csaba Halász
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:05 PM, John Denker wrote: > On 02/05/2010 02:38 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: >> I don't doubt that there could be some lib vs. lib64 inconsistencies, but >> FilghtGear builds right out of the box for me on 64bit Fedora 12 ... no >> hitches at all that I recall and it has done

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread John Denker
On 02/06/2010 02:32 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: > As I see it this might actually be a problem for the Linux vendor. They > should have added /usr/lib64 to /etc/ld.so.conf That does not fix the main problem. It does not fix the bug that I am reporting. ld.so.conf is meaningful at runtime. The prob

Re: [Flightgear-devel] memory hemorrhage

2010-02-06 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Heiko Schulz wrote: > When I read this I could remember that X-Plane uses something similar. > > And yep, it seems so: > > http://scenery.x-plane.com/library.php?doc=about_facades.php > http://scenery.x-plane.com/library.php?doc=facspec.php > > Just as an idea and for discussion Very inte

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Anders Gidenstam wrote: > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Erik Hofman wrote: > >> Does this mean this view option only works properly when the mutiplayer >> option is selected? If so the I guess the option should be disabled by >> default and only bge available when MP is active. > > No, for me it seems to b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Durk Talsma
On Saturday 06 February 2010 12:15:15 pm Jon Stockill wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > > I don't doubt that there could be some lib vs. lib64 inconsistencies, > > but FilghtGear builds right out of the box for me on 64bit Fedora 12 ... > > no hitches at all that I recall and it has done so for quite

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated the DC3

2010-02-06 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, On Tuesday 02 February 2010 05:46:45 pm Dick Maurer wrote: > I know there's a problem with dc3-04.rgb I've got to resolve that one. > > Maybe somebody can import the update into CVS. > > I tried getting your changed into CVS, but decided to hold back on committing after I found a few errors.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Erik Hofman wrote: > Does this mean this view option only works properly when the mutiplayer > option is selected? If so the I guess the option should be disabled by > default and only bge available when MP is active. No, for me it seems to behave perfectly ok also without MP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Curtis Olson
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: > [ the "model view".] > > I never understood this view anyhow, what is it supposed to do? As I recall, the point of this view was to show an external view of the aircraft from a fixed heading. For some situations and some people, all the extra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Gijs de Rooy wrote: > > Erik wrote: > > I never understood this view (model-view) anyhow, what is it supposed > to do? > > In the bottomleft corner of your screen a "dialog" shows up, that allows > you to > cycle through helicopter-views from yourself and the other MP pilots. Does this mean t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis Olson wrote: > I don't doubt that there could be some lib vs. lib64 inconsistencies, > but FilghtGear builds right out of the box for me on 64bit Fedora 12 ... > no hitches at all that I recall and it has done so for quite some time. Same for me on slackware64. Jon -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Gijs de Rooy
> Erik wrote: > I never understood this view (model-view) anyhow, what is it supposed to do? In the bottomleft corner of your screen a "dialog" shows up, that allows you to cycle through helicopter-views from yourself and the other MP pilots. Quite a nice feature to view other's landings! Chee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: > Here’s the setup: Start the program as > > fgfs --airport=KLXV --metar=" 012345Z 0KT 99SM CLR 15/M01 A2992" > > Let the aircraft sit on the runway. There is no need to start the engine. Use > the "v" key to cycle through the available views. The scenery looks norm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
First of all, I don't think that Jpoe the Plumber should or will compile FlightGear him/herself. Anybody who wants to do so should learn how to do that. John Denker wrote: > Another workaround -- the one I actually prefer -- is to > let OSG live under .../lib64/ but add > >LDFLAGS="$LD