Re: 19991230: Garp 2.1 update, gdthgt update

Matt,

the pl12 distribution is the complete Gempak distribution.
The number of changes were extensive enough to create a completely
new tarfile rather than just distributing the changed routines.

The process for installing the Gempak distribution pl12 is:

1: create a clean nawips top level directory. For instance, if
your current distribution is /opt/nawips, then mv this to
/opt/nawips.bak and create a new nawips subdirectory under /opt.

2: place the pl12 tar file in the clean nawips directory and
unpack with:

gunzip -c gempak54upc_pl12.tar.gz | tar xvf -

3: mv the garp directory to garp2.02

4: Now unpack the pl14 tar file from the top nawips directory

gunzip -c gempak5.4_patch14.tar.gz | tar xvf -

note...you can remove the garp2.02 directory and its contents

5) edit the Gemenviron csh variables in the nawips directory and
define NAWIPS and your other data directories. You should be able to
use your old Gemenviron file from the old nawips directory (that
you moved aside). Since you are building under IRIX64, make sure that
your old Gemenviron file had the XCFLAGS with -o32 like the current
one does (I don't recall exactly how long ago that flag was added
to Gemenviron).

6) now just build and install:

source Gemenviron 
make all
make install
make clean

The default locations for IRIX compilers etc should be fine...eg you
shouldn't have to modify $NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.irix since SGI installs
stuff in standard locations with their swmgr tools.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Matthew G. Fearon wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> I would like to install patch gempak5.4_patch14, however I must
> first install patch gempak54upc_pl12. When unzipping the
> gempak54upc_pl12.tar.gz I receive a lot of permission denied
> statements. I have the instructions for installing gempak5.4_patch14,
> but I think I am doing something incorrectly with gempak54upc_pl12.
> When you have a few minutes, could you send me instructions for
> installing and unzipping gempak54upc_pl12.tar.gz.
> 
> Thank you,
> Matt Fearon
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> Steve Chiswell wrote:
> 
> > Gempak Users,
> >
> > COMET has provided a Garp 2.1 release which addresses some
> > remaining Y2K issues with that program. I have also updated
> > gdthgt for grid files that span the year end period.
> >
> > The patch has been placed in the ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/patches
> > directory as gempak5.4_patch14.tar.gz
> >
> > Before installing this patch, you may want to move your current
> > $NAWIPS/garp tree to $NAWIPS/garp2.02 so that you can refer to
> > settings in your $GARPHOME/config/Garp_defaults file for your
> > data directory locations and dataset names (model keys, names etc).
> >
> > **Note that this patch assumes that you have the current distribution
> > from ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl12.tar.gz
> >
> > The instructions for installing this patch are as follows:
> >
> > 0) in $NAWIPS, move your current garp tree
> >
> >         mv garp garp2.02
> >
> > 1) download the compressed tar file to your local $NAWIPS directory
> >
> > 2) unpack the tar file with the command:
> >         gunzip -c gempak5.4_patch14.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> >
> > 3) Rebuild updated gemlib routines
> >
> >         cd $GEMPAKHOME/source/gemlib/tg
> >         make clean
> >         make all
> >         make clean
> >
> >         cd $GEMPAKHOME/source/gemlib/ti
> >         make clean
> >         make all
> >         make clean
> >
> > 4) Build an updated version of gdthgt (also used by Garp!!!)
> >
> >         cd $GEMPAKHOME/source/programs/gd/gdthgt
> >         make clean
> >         make all
> >         make install
> >         make clean
> >
> > 5) Build and install Garp 2.1
> >
> >         cd $GARPHOME
> >         make all
> >         make install
> >         make clean
> >
> > It is very important that you follow the above steps in order
> > since the update of garp relies on the gdthgt library and the
> > updated gemlib routines!
> >
> > I will be updating the complete distribution tarfile tomorrow.
> > I will also update the Linux and Solarix x86 binary distribution
> > tarfiles tomorrow (12/31/1999).
> >
> > Without this patch, Garp2.02 will display incorrect forecast time
> > labels on the generated maps and gdthgt will not display labels
> > for time periods which run over the year end.
> >
> > Garp 2.1 will display time selction widgets using 4 digit years
> > in the selection boxes.
> >
> > Steve Chiswell
> > Unidata User Support
> 
>