[gradsusr] grads on Mavericks -- No X11 ?

[Andrew Friedman]

Hi Alex,

I understand you prefer not to use MacPorts, but in case you decide to, I can confirm that it installs GrADS 2.0.2. smoothly on Mavericks.

Andrew

On May 2, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Graf, Alexander (GE Global Research) <a.graf at ge.com> wrote:

> Hello Grads Users,
> 
> I am trying to get grads working in Macintosh Mavericks.  Has any one done this successfully?  I am running into dylib problems that according to other forums on the web results from the deprecation of X11.
> 
> I tried the installation and functionality on an older machine running Snow Leopard and it worked.
> 
> My setup:
> I am running OS 10.9.2 Mavericks on an Intel Macintosh.
> 
> I tried using grads version  — darwin11.4-intel
> 
> SFO1212339408M:bin 212339408$ ls -lo
> 
> total 25376
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 212339408    19229 Nov  9  2012 COPYRIGHT
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 212339408     2266 Jul 31  2008 INSTALL
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408    33652 Nov  9  2012 bufrscan
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408  9608256 Nov  9  2012 grads
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408   391616 Nov  9  2012 grib2scan
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408  1051944 Nov  9  2012 gribmap
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408   408832 Nov  9  2012 gribscan
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408    37800 Nov  9  2012 gxeps
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408    27912 Nov  9  2012 gxps
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408   606084 Nov  9  2012 gxtran
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408   438520 Nov  9  2012 stnmap
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 212339408   346372 Nov  9  2012 wgrib
> 
> SFO1212339408M:bin 212339408$ pwd
> 
> /usr/local/bin/grads-2.0.2/bin
> 
> SFO1212339408M:bin 212339408$ ./grads
> 
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libX11.6.dylib
> 
>  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/grads-2.0.2/bin/./grads
> 
>  Reason: image not found
> 
> Trace/BPT trap: 5
> 
> SFO1212339408M:bin 212339408$
> 
> 
> SFO1212339408M:bin 212339408$ otool -L grads
> 
> grads:
> 
> /opt/local/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.0.0)
> 
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 159.1.0)
> 
> /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version 8.1.0)
> 
> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 52.0.0)
> 
> The correct version of this dylib happens to live somewhere else ( /opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib ) on my computer so a symbolic link fixes the issue.
> 
> 
> sudo ln -s /opt/X11/lib/libX11.dylib /opt/local/lib/libX11.6.dylib
> 
> So I move on to a new issue.
> 
> 
> SFO1212339408M:bin 212339408$ ./grads
> 
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
> 
>  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/grads-2.0.2/bin/./grads
> 
>  Reason: Incompatible library version: grads requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
> 
> Trace/BPT trap: 5
> 
> Unfortunately, the correct version of this library doesn’t seem to exist anywhere I can find.
> 
> I also tried using grads version — darwin11.4
> It asks to install X11 (which is deprecated in Mavericks (and before I think) ).  I have XQuartz up and running but I am not sure how to get grads to be satisfied with it instead.
> 
> My only thought is to install Macports, with the hope that it would supply the various libraries in /opt/local/lib/ that it needs  — but I would really prefer not to go this route.
> 
> Any thoughts ?  I can provide more info as necessary.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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