[EMBOSS] problem with EMBOSS configuration '--without x'

[Fields, Christopher J]

Not sure when the next version is due out, but I thought this is worth mentioning in case someone else runs into it.  We had an odd issue with our local EMBOSS installation (6.4.0) on a RHEL VM which is likely a bug in the configuration step.  We were installing for use mainly with Galaxy, and didn't need X11 configuration, so we configured as follows:

./configure --prefix=/opt/local/Bio/EMBOSS --without-x

However, the installed binaries couldn't find the acd files or data; the only way to find them (as well as the data files) was to explicitly set EMBOSS_ACDROOT and EMBOSS_DATA.  Oddly, installing libx11-devel and removing the '--without-x' flag during configuration worked just fine, no need for default env variables or .embossrc files.

Anyone else run into this?

chris


Christopher Fields
Senior Research Scientist
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1206 W. Gregory Dr. , MC-195
Urbana, IL 61801