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Mark, I'd have to see your link problems using the mm5togem and the libraries to tell what your problem was there. In the support archives, I did help someone else a while back with a similar problem where their source code was expecting GEMPAK5.4 libraries, and therefore not finding the correct library routines when linking against 5.6. In your attempt to build from source, I found: ar rv /usr/gempak2/lib/linux/libpng.a png.o pngset.o pngget.o pngrutil.o pngtrans.o pngwutil.o pngread.o pngrio.o pngwio. o pngwrite.o pngrtran.o pngwtran.o pngmem.o pngerror.o pngpread.o ar: /usr/gempak2/lib/linux/libpng.a: No such file or directory this seems to say that the Makefile in $NAWIPS was not able to create the directory $GEMLIB (eg $NAWIPS/lib/linux) which is done in the .INIT action of the Makefile. Try creating the directory manually with: mkdir -p $GEMLIB then do a "make clean", followed by "make all" and "make install". Steve Dr. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support address@hidden On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Mark Conder wrote: > Hi Mr. Chiswell, > > I'm trying to install the gempak source so that I can try to run mm5togem on > my linux box. > > I downloaded gempak_upc5.6.j.tar.gz and the latest openmotif and > openmotif-develop rpms. The motif rpms installed fine. > Oh, I'm running RH 7.1 > > I'm having problems with the gempak installation. After untarring, I > changed the Gemenviron (NAWIPS /usr/gempak2 - my top dir) > and then I uncommented the RH 7.1 motif lib path in config/Makeinc.linux and > commented out the 7.3 one. > > I've attached the make.out and install.out so you can see the errors that > have been produced. > > If you have any chance to take a quick look and hopefully see what I'm doing > wrong I would greatly appreciate it. I already tried downloading the Gempak > libs on top of the linux binaries but I couldn't get mm5togem to link to the > libs so I thought that maybe I had to install gempak from the source. > > Thanks for any help you can provide, > Sincerely, > Mark Conder >