20000802: libF77.so.4 & Gempak decoders

>From: Mark Tucker <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200008031435.e73EZ0T00644

>On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> >I've moved our ldm over to a Solaris 8 X86 system and now whenever any
>> >of the gempak decoders (dcgrib etc...) are called I get an error message
>> >about ld not finding libF77.so.4.  I could not find that library
>> >anywhere on the server.  Gempak is installed from the binary tar
>> >file.  I do not have any of the Sun compilers but have gcc, f2c, g77 etc.
>> >installed on the system.   Where do I get this library? 
>> >
>> 
>> Libf77.so.4 is typically in /opt/SUNWspro/lib or your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> (you can check as to where its looking with the "ldd dcgrib" command.
>> (You might have downloaded the file from us into your /usr/lib directory 
>> and been overwritten when you upgraded.
>> 
>> I have the typical libraries needed to run the binary installation 
>> in the ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/solaris_X86 directory which you can download.
>> 
>
>Steve,
>Thanks, that seems to have fixed it.  My install of Solaris 8 does not
>have a SUNWspro directory in /opt or anywhere else.  I've seen this
>referenced in other documentation for Unidata apps.  Do the Sun compilers
>create and install into that directory or am I missing something else that
>should be installed?  I though I did a full install of Solaris 8.
>
>Mark Tucker
>Information Technology
>Lyndon State College
>address@hidden
>http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu
>


Mark,

The /opt/SUNWspro is created when installing the sparcworks compilers.
Since my X86 GEMPAK binaries are linked against that here, that is where the
programs will look for the libraries unless they find it in /usr/lib or in one 
of the directories
pointed to by your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Steve Chiswell