[ptx] Linux installation problems

[Giles Morant]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 02:20, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Dear Hugin / Panorama Tools experts,
> 
> I was getting on splendidly with Hugin until I pressed the "Stitch Now!"
> button.  It did nothing.  On investigation it seems that PTStitcher is
> invoked but fails.  Having saved the script from Hugin, if I run PTStitcher
> from the command line I get this:
> 
> $ PTStitcher -o panop.jpeg scrpt
> Error Opening Scriptfile
> Could not load Scriptfile
> 
> I'm hoping that someone will know immediately what I'm doing wrong.  But if
> not, here are some more details.
> 
> I'm running this on a reasonably up-to-date Debian Testing machine.  I got
> panorama-tools_2.6bml12-3_i386.deb from
> bugbear.blackfish.org.uk/~bruno/panorama-tools and
> hugin-20040220-1.i386.rpm from the same place, installed with alien.  ldd
> gives sensible answers for hugin and PTStitcher.
> 
> I tried doing an strace of PTStitcher, and after the usual dynamic library
> loading it tries to open the script file, which fails:
> 
> open("scrpt", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR
> (Not a directory)
> 
> ? Why is it passing O_DIRECTORY to open()?  It shouldn't be.  Could be an
> strace() oddity though.  man 2 open describes what this is for, and that it
> was introduced in kernel 2.1.126.  file reports that PTStitcher is "for
> GNU/Linux 2.0.0", though again I don't know what that really means.
> 
> I considered rebuilding PTSticher from source, but can't find any source
> code.  Only the source for the library seems to exist.  (If this is the
> case, how hard would it be for Hugin to use the library API rather than
> calling the executable?).
> 
> Is this a glibc version thing?  Do I need some old compatibility package?
> 
> I find it hard to believe that I'm the only person who's having this
> difficulty.  Any suggestions anyone?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> --Phil.
> 
> 

I think you will find appending a ".txt" to the end of the PTStitcher
script filename  will fix matters.  As for the source code, I've been
looking for a while!