Re: isis startup error

John E. Davis wrote:
> Roderick Johnstone <rmj_at_email.domain.hidden>> I just installed isis 1.4.7 on Scientific Linux 4.4 / i386. It 
>> configured and built and installed, apparently, without error.
>>
>> When I give the isis command it fails with:
>>
>> linux> isis
>> *** isis initialization failed; using ISIS_SRCDIR = /data/soft3/isis/1.4.7
>>
>> Unable to locate structfuns on load path
>> /data/soft3/isis/1.4.7/share/require.sl:123:require:Open failed
>> *** isis initialization failed
>>
>> How can I fix this?
> 
> What does `isis --version` produce?  Also, what do the following
> commands produce?
> 
>   linux> isis -v
>   linux> slsh -v

and:

linux> slsh --version
slsh version 0.6-0
S-Lang Library Version: 1.4.9

So there seems to be more than one version of slsh in the ciao 3.4 
release. The version I'm picking up is 1.4.9, although I built isis 
against --with-slang=/data/soft3/cxc/v3.4/linux/ots/slang which seems to 
contain  libslang.so.2.

I tried prepending /data/soft3/cxc/v3.4/linux/ots/slang/bin/ to PATH so 
that I get:

linux> slsh --version
slsh version 0.7.3-0
S-Lang Library Version: 2.0.4

as my default slsh, but isis still reports:

linux> isis
*** isis initialization failed; using ISIS_SRCDIR = /data/soft3/isis/1.4.7

Unable to locate structfuns on load path
/data/soft3/isis/1.4.7/share/require.sl:123:require:Open failed
*** isis initialization failed

Maybe I should try to build against the slang in ciao 4.0b1???

Roderick
> 
> Note: you need to have slang completely installed.  On debian it is
> not enough to install the slang library-- you also have to install slsh:
> 
>    apt-get install slsh
> 
> I hope this helps.
> --John
> 


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