From: Tom Flynn (flynnt++at++cthulhu.engr.sgi.com)
Date: 06/20/2000 13:27:34
alternatively, you could take the pfb laoder source from your linux box
and compile it on your IRIX box and use that libpfpfb.so. That'll detect
the endianness of the machine and the file and byte-swap accordingly.
-tom
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Allan Schaffer wrote:
> On Jun 20, 5:49pm, c937161++at++student.dtu.dk wrote:
> > I'm having trouble loading pfb files in Performer 2.2 on Irix made with
> > pfconv using Performer 2.3 for Linux. Searching the archives and other
> > docs does not give me any clues to why it fails. The pfb DSO says it's not
> > a pfb file (it is). I assume that all endianess issues are taken care of
> > in the loader.
> >
> > Would the pfb format have changed so much from 2.2 to 2.3 that binary
> > compatibility is broken?
>
> The PFB loader shipped with 2.2 doesn't (yet) have the ability to
> perform the required endianness-flip to read PFB files created on
> a Linux system with Performer 2.3.
>
> An updated PFB loader will ship in IRIX 6.5.10 that fixes this
> problem. I'll see about putting the new code on our website
> somewhere as well.
>
> In the meantime, what you might try is to do all of your 'pfconv'
> conversions on an IRIX system, and copy those files over to Linux.
> The IRIX (pf2.2) system will be able to read them, and the Linux
> (pf2.3) system will do an endianness flip with no trouble.
>
> Allan
>
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