20010119: GEMPAK 5.6.a binary for RH 6.x using lesstif

Pete,

RH 7.0 deluxe comes with openmotif (and you can download it otherwise),
so that is the route I will be pursuing.

The lesstif library guarantees that things will compile since all
the functions exist at lest as stubs, but some routines are just stubs-
so I can't guaranteee that everything will work and keep working in the future.

Once I have verified that the openmotif library that we have (2.1.32) is
compatible, I will let you know (with holidays, NIDS-zlib, AMS, and now
the policy committee meeting), we still have some machines to get off RH 6.2
that our sysadms will put openmotif on.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Pete Pokrandt wrote:

> 
> Steve and all,
> 
> I have successfully compiled the 5.6.a release of GEMPAK on a RedHat
> Linux 6.x system using gcc and the lesstif (open-source motif clone)
> libraries. There were a few issues I needed to deal with - the main one
> was that for some reason the
> 
> '$NAWIPS/GEMPAK5.6/lib/linux/device.a'
> 
> file didn't get 'ranlib'ed somehow, and the loader failed when trying to
> use it for some progs. I ranlib'd it manually and everything built
> w/o error.  If you'd like to see the make.out file from those
> failures I can pass that along.
> 
> I get some warnings about not finding icons when running garp,
> and some other X type warnings, but as far as I can tell, it
> runs fine.
> 
> I'm just about to test on another machine from the pre-built tar file
> I'm making, and if that works, and there is interest, I'd be happy to
> make it available to the Unidata community, along with a README file
> explaining what lesstif is needed and where to find it.
> 
> Nice to see that the maximum of 98 files or directories restriction
> is gone from garp, since there are 150+ radar sites!
> 
> Let me know,
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> 
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