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>From: GH <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Kentucky >Keywords: 199901121936.MAA17787 GEMPAK 5.4 build Gary- We only support the use of the SUN ANSI C and FORTRAN compilers on the SPARC platform. You must have access to these to build GEMPAK. We do not provide binaries for the SPARC as a rule. Also, please set your mailer up to send a text message instead of HTML format. As you see, we do not handle the HTML versions very well. Don Murray ><html> >i am trying to install Gempak 5.4 for the folowing system.<br> ><br> ><x-tab> </x-tab>SunOS >clare 5.4 Generic_101945-36 sun4m sparc<br> ><br> >i am receiving theses errors:<br> >-----------------------------------------<br> > ><dl> ><dd>clare% make all ><dd>Making all in /unidata/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4 ><dd>-n making in ><dd>/unidata/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/source ><dd>Making all in /unidata/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/source/nxmlib ><dd>cc -xildoff -O -DUNDERSCORE -DSunOS -c -I/usr/openwin/include >-I/usr/dt/include NuiColorInit.c ><dd>sh: cc: not found ><dd>*** Error code 1 ><dd>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target >`/unidata/NAWIPS-5.4/lib/sol/Nxmlib.a(NuiColorInit.o)' ><dd>Current working directory >/unidata/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/source/nxmlib ><dd>*** Error code 1 ><dd>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' ><dd>Current working directory /unidata/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/source ><dd>*** Error code 1 ><dd>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' ><dd>Current working directory /unidata/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4 ><dd>*** Error code 1 ><dd>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'<br> ><br> > ></dl>------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------<br> ><br> >It seems that we do not have a good copy of cc installed or maybe some >library is missing, my question is do you have a binary for this program >and if not what must i do to compile it using gcc?<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> ><br> ><br> ><div>Gary W Howe, MCP</div> ><div>System Programmer / Administrator</div> ><div>Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering</div> ><div>University of Kentucky</div> >" \ .com all day long " ></html> >