Re: [Swarm-Support] Installing Swarm on CentOS 5.2 AMD64 box

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Gary Polhill wrote:
> I'm working on a project trying to deploy Swarm on the grid, so I was curious to see the extra issues that arose in trying to build javaswarm. For grid deployment, of course, one would normally expect everything to run in batch mode. 
The main thing is that the code that forwards calls from Objective to 
other runtimes (e.g. Java) needs to be fixed for various targets like 
x86_64.   One way to avoid this problem (the need to forward) is to use 
the FCall scheduling methods instead of Objective-C style messaging.  
Really it should be fixed. 

As for dropping the non-GUI stuff, there's at least nothing added by 
Java w.r.t. GUI dependencies.   Scott Christley added some 
configure-time options for building without Tcl/Tk but I haven't tried 
it myself.   It won't slow your models down to just have GUI support in 
the build.

Marcus