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Sean, I am placing a recompiled solaris binary tarfile in the gbuddy ftp account under nawips-5.6/binary/solaris_sparc/gempak_upc5.6.d.1a_sol.tar.gz Download information: hostname: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu login: gbuddy password: XXXXXX As the name above suggests, I simply retagged the tarfile as 5.6.d.1a instead of the previous 5.6.d.1 file. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Sean D. wrote: > Hi there Steve, > > I put the NetCDF directories where you said they should go. It > worked. But the "make all" script died much further down the compile > process. > > I get a bunch of undefined symbol errors and then a bunch of fatal errors. > > Perhaps it would be easier for both you and I if you recompiled the > distribution for me. I'm sorry for this trouble. Next time I try to > install a source distribution, I will make sure our compilers are > correct. We must have licenses for them somewhere. That will elimiate at > least the problems with having the wrong compiler versions. > > Sincerely, > Sean Daida > address@hidden > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Steve Chiswell wrote: > > > Sean, > > > > This week is pretty busy, including a staff retreat for 5/10 year planning, > > status reports for User and Policy Committee meetings, interviews > > for new employees, and of course, the UCAR golf tournament ;-). > > > > I wouldn't get hung up on compilers for the NetCDF library. > > If you want to download the NetCDF library for solaris from: > > ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/sunos_5.8-sparc/netcdf-3.5.0.tar.Z > > > > You can create the $NAWIPS/netcdf/sol directory, unpack the contents of > > the tarfile mentioned above and place in the $NAWIPS/netcdf/sol directory. > > Eg, you want the bin, lib, include, and man directories under > > $NAWIPS/netcdf/sol that will be found in the netcdf-3.5.0/ directory of the > > tarfile. > > > > Once you have that installed, when you run the GEMPAK make, it will not > > attempt > > to build the included NetCDF since you will already have it. > > > > Otherwise, I can recompile the 5.6.D.1 distribution for you. > > > > Steve Chiswell > > > > > > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Sean D. wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > Just wondering if you got my last email. You are usually pretty quick so > > > I'd thought I'd check. > > > > > > I was wondering if you could make the binary for me. Arnold doesn't know > > > anything about the c and fortran compilers. He claims he was able to > > > compile the source of gempak but doesn't know which computer he used. We > > > have a great many sun systems here and he has no idea which one has the > > > compilers...if they even have them. > > > > > > Anyway, I hope all things are well with you. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > Sean Daida > > > address@hidden > > > (808)956-4593 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >